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There will be many, many obstacles, but let's imagine all parties agree to a peace plan. America would then have avoided its nightmare scenario--sending in 25,000 soldiers to help U.N. forces withdraw from Bosnia while the war is on. That's great, but there is a catch. The Clinton Administration has also pledged that if a peace accord is signed, the U.S. will send 25,000 troops to Bosnia to help enforce it. No doubt that is a safer mission than covering a U.N. retreat. Still, at his office in Naples, U.S. Admiral Leighton Smith...
...onetime baron of Fox, last week bought into a skein of uhf TV stations to get back in the game. It is also a pipe nightmare for those who believe competition is the soul of both capitalism and pop-cultural creativity. But another deal last week brought the scenario a step toward plausibility. Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System declared they were deep in negotiations that could lead to a Time Warner purchase, led by chairman Gerald Levin, of Ted Turner's prize fleet of media properties. If it flies, the deal would again make Time Warner the world...
...RAND CORP. WAR-GAME SCENARIO was a bit sensational. Who would believe that militant Islamists have the technological wisdom, manpower or money actually to launch a full-fledged information war against the U.S.? Ridiculous! Could a Third World nation procure a formidable, modern cyber-warfare capability virtually off-the-shelf? I don't think so. It is possible, however, for a Third World nation to engage in terrorist activities focused on the private sector of the U.S. America is technologically ahead of every Third World country by perhaps 80 years. Terrorist activities nowadays usually revolve around fuel oil and fertilizer...
...believes that within the next few years, people will be willing to pay small amounts of money--"like a nickel an article," he suggests--to read their favorite online publications. All it would take to survive is thousands of people a day, each paying 5 cents an article--a scenario that is hampered right now by the fact that collecting a nickel over the Internet costs more than 5 cents. Until that changes, webzines are more likely to follow in the footsteps of Mr. Showbiz, which is planning to register readers in so-called premium areas and start billing them...
Director John Boorman, an artist-adventurer with an eye for pictorial rapture and social turmoil, brought this sort of scenario alive in The Emerald Forest. Not so here, where he lapses into banal visual stereotyping: the rebels are thin, winsome, saintly, while the nasty soldiers have bad skin and potbellies...