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...Germany, the chief regulator of wireless is reportedly considering allowing some of the winners of that country's licenses to get together somehow. That's bad news, by the way, for telecom equipment makers like Nokia, which is on the hook for 3G as well. The firm announced last week that it is loaning $1.8 billion to France Telecom as part of a package to build UMTS networks. Nokia, like its clients, must figure that the only thing more expensive than buying into 3G might be not buying...
...even dangerous trend in the way we, the world’s sole great power, conduct ourselves in foreign affairs. Whether it be in Bosnia, Somalia or now the South China Sea, there seems to be nothing so important to our policymakers as the terrifying worry that maybe, somehow, American soldiers might lose their lives overseas. First in the Clinton years, and now under Bush the younger, we are willing to take a hard line with our enemies—but only when there is no risk of losing so much as a single, ever-so-precious American life...
...story on the bankruptcy bill [BUSINESS, March 26], you prominently featured a Merrill Lynch Visa Signature card. Running this graphic with the article, which takes a negative view of the legislation and the "credit-card companies" advocating its passage, was misleading. It gave the impression that Merrill Lynch was somehow involved in crafting or lobbying for the bill, which is untrue. Merrill Lynch took no position on the bill and in no way lobbied for or against it. EDDIE W. REEVES Merrill Lynch Media Relations New York City
...when Bill Clinton considered apologizing for slavery. My lord, if you can't apolize for slavery, what can you apologize for? Sure, I didn't enslave anyone and neither did my ancestors, but I'd be a liar if I said that as a white American I haven't somehow indirectly benefited from that evil institution. I have no connection to slavery, but I regret that it happened in a country that I believe in and call home. Please accept my apology for slavery...
...somehow American leaders seem to feel that it is emasculating to apologize. Politicians reflexively follow the advice of the comedian Lenny Bruce who, when asked what to do if your wife accuses you of being unfaithful, said, "Deny, deny, deny...