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...leaders, it was easy to understand that we were selecting not those we liked but those (such as Hitler) whose influence was huge. But for artists, everyone was tempted to push for personal favorites, the folks each of us thought were the best. For example, I'm in that slice of my generation that thinks the Stones were better than the Beatles, but I had to admit the Beatles had more influence. In the end a lot of people who may have been the best in their field (film director Ingmar Bergman, for example) did not make the list because...
WASHINGTON: For John Kasich, this was like a primary win. The GOP budgetmeister and fiscal watchdog got a new line on his Kasich 2000 résumé Friday when the House approved a GOP plan to slice domestic spending by an additional $101 billion through 2003 and trim taxes by the same amount...
With children ages 3 to 12 the fastest-growing slice of the software market, it's no wonder so many kids' titles are previewing at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Atlanta. A digital Elmo teaches pre-schoolers their ABC's and 1-2-3's in two of the first "edutainment" titles for the Sony PlayStation. And move over, Quicken: a Beanie Babies CD-ROM helps kids track their cuddly assets and guides them to some online trading sites...
...Lloyd is everything we'd expect him to be: a predictably amoral executive who clings to the upper wrung of the management ladder like a sloth to a tree branch, fighting to protect his slice of generous options and to overindulge in brown liquids, Cuban smokes, aged red meat and not-so-aged women other than his wife...
...unfair as this may be, the FCC claims it is exempting this new slice of the industry from taxes only long enough for it to get off the ground. Once they start pulling their fair share of the tax burden, though, one can expect IP telephony to become a bit more pricey...