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Those Bushes - they love serial schmoozing. Twelve years ago, after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the family's first President used to boast about the number of world leaders he'd managed to telephone in an afternoon. Now his son has caught the bug. Six days before he was due to give a speech at the United Nations, President Bush spoke about Iraq to his opposite numbers in France, China and Russia. The next day Bush was host to British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David before preparing to meet Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on Sept...
...Pocket PC 2002 operating system. The device is handsome (thanks to a plastic casing that looks like brushed titanium), has a decent color screen and comes equipped with a full range of applications (such as Pocket Outlook) that can be synchronized with your PC through a USB or serial port...
...reason: the networks tried creativity last year and got burned. Critics touted Fox's form-breaking CIA serial 24 as last fall's runaway hit, and it was--among critics. The networks took other risks--Alias, Scrubs--but not a single new show became a breakout hit. So broadcast execs retrenched. In July, at an annual TV reporters' meeting in Pasadena, Calif., they said flatly that they're programming not for critics, who prize innovation and surprises, but for ordinary folks, who want to veg out after a stressful day with something familiar and comforting but slightly less harmful than...
...become at once something we can't live without and something akin to a global serial killer. As with aircraft, human error rather than mechanical failure is the prime cause of car crashes, typically exacerbated by speed or alcohol, and often both. Many people who love their god, their children and their job nevertheless drive as though there is no tomorrow, foot down, mobile phone to hand, rude and reckless kings and queens of the road. But for 40,000 E.U. citizens each year, the road ends. Peeled from asphalt, picked in pieces from twisted steel and plastic, body-bagged...
...companies to film studios, that at some point were supposed to connect seamlessly and gush money. But he was late to the Big Media theory. Firms like Disney, AOL Time Warner, News Corp. and Viacom had already spent billions connecting content with distribution. To catch up, Messier became a serial acquirer, buying the Bronfmans' Seagram Co. and its Universal movie studio, theme parks and music group for $34 billion in stock. Last year, in the U.S. alone, he agreed to buy book publisher Houghton Mifflin, music website mp3.com a 10% stake in the EchoStar satellite service, and the entertainment assets...