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...pugnacious Bill O'Reilly gives viewers an earful of whatever's on his mind--and they can take it or leave it. In his new book, Who's Looking Out for You?, he offers readers his very opinionated guide on how not to be stepped on or over or spun. He spoke with TIME's Richard Stengel about politics, parenting and his nemesis Al Franken...
Every hopeful but Dean either voted to invade Iraq or supported aggressive regime change as long as the U.N. tagged along. Multilateral might, they seem to think, would have made war right. And every insurgent has spun with the subtlety of a pre-teen ballerina around the question of how to clean up the Middle East mess—even Dean, whose “Beantown is Deantown” placards, on display during his Copley Square speech two weeks ago, have already sloganeered him into my ominous Boston analogy...
...Glare Re your notebook item on British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his testimony at the Hutton Inquiry [Sept. 8]: nobody has come out a winner in this situation, as far as I can see. Blair, the British government, the intelligence forces and the bbc have all "spun" things to suit their various claims. No one knows what to believe anymore. The Hutton Inquiry has certainly given us a fascinating insight into how the government is run and what sort of influence the Prime Minister's appointees, such as communications chief Alastair Campbell, have over government policies. Whether...
After Holy Cross kicked off out of bounds, Harvard faced first-and-10 on its own 35. Fitzpatrick went to Edwards, but underthrew him. Edwards came back—past the defenders he had already beaten—caught the ball over a pair of defensive backs, spun through them and cut right. While crossing the field, Edwards absorbed a hard hit from Holy Cross cornerback Darran Davis but stayed on his feet and fought his way out of a tangle of purple jerseys before finally being brought down after a 42-yard gain...
...that Vivendi remains a jumble. It has some telecommunications businesses, plus the world's largest music company, Universal Music Group, and the French subscription TV station Canal Plus, neither of which is doing well. Then there are the "noncore" assets: a remaining 20% stake in the water utility it spun off last year, Veolia Environnement, and a shareholding in Elektrim, a Polish telecommunications company. For a while Fourtou seemed to be betting on telecom: last year, even with his mandate to divest, he acquired BT Group's 26% stake in Cegetel, thwarting an attempt by Britain's Vodafone to take...