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...build it? PrimeCo--which plunked down more than a billion dollars to license airwaves in 11 metropolitan areas--is in a hurry to start selling its services. And it is barred from more logical sites in Wheaton, Illinois, just next door, by a recently imposed six-month moratorium on antenna permits. So it zoomed in on our unincorporated neighborhood as a convenient, and vulnerable, target...
...Over a six-month period beginning in September 1995, Ross Perot held a series of private meetings with fellow supporters of the third-party movement, ostensibly seeking their advice on whether and how to run again for President. Consistently, the group, which included former Connecticut Governor and Senator Lowell Weicker and New York businessman Thomas Galisano, warned Perot that if he ran again, he could no longer be a one-man band. This time, the advisers said, he had to bring national-level politicians into the fold. He had to listen to their policy prescriptions and incorporate their ideas into...
...departure of the Soviets in 1989 ended much of the interest of the U.S. and other outsiders. Shortly afterward, vicious, sustained civil war broke out. In the years since, five different armies have fought in Kabul's streets, battling from house to house, killing 45,000 in one six-month period. Jahannam, says the Koran, is a hellish place of "harrowing torment" where people are kept in "heavy fetters and a blazing fire." This is punishment for sinners in the afterlife; such a horror is not known on earth. Kabul must surely be close...
...should be relegated to sub-human status because he is very different from the rest of us. You might claim, for example, that since he is much smaller than we are and his physical features are still underdeveloped, he is not human. Yet by that logic neither is a six-month old baby. Or maybe you maintain that because she does not take in food and oxygen through her mouth, she is not human. Yet if that is the case then a hospitalized person who takes in food intravenously or who is hooked up to a heart-lung machine relinquishes...
...what do you get for Forbes, the man who has everything? Product placement. Whatever else it was, the Forbes campaign was effectively a Forbes campaign, a six-month promo for the candidate's business magazine. In the long run, the boost in name recognition for his publication could well be worth more than the $30 million Forbes spent on the race. (Compare it, for instance, with the $150 million Ford Motors spent last year to relaunch the redesigned Taurus.) But to realize the advantage, Forbes may have to return full-time to publishing. In the first two months of this...