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...Army's biowar researchers, that seemed unable or unwilling to share what they knew with one another. "The Toms let him down this week," said a top Administration adviser. "But the President is adamant that nobody say anything bad about them, and the Veep has a big stake in them...
...necessity is a life-or-death struggle in which the safety and security of the homeland are at stake. The war on terrorism is such a war. So was World War II. Fifty years is a long interval, and it shows. The habits of waging such a war have atrophied. The language we have mobilized to wage this war of necessity is the language of wars of choice, heavily freighted with moral anguish, obsessively concerned with proving how delicate and discriminating, how tolerant and sensitive we Americans...
...have to integrate the Internet into all of our core businesses." As he tries to do so, he will have another $6.2 billion in cash, due in January from AOL Time Warner as part-payment for Bertelsmann's 49% stake in AOL Europe. At the moment TV is Bertelsmann's best business, thanks to the February purchase of a majority stake in RTL, the biggest producer of programming outside Hollywood. But he is determined to prove that fans will pay for music downloaded from...
...Later this year Napster will release a new version of its file-swapping software with built-in copyright protection. If all goes well, Bertelsmann will convert its loan to Napster into a 56% stake in the firm. MusicNet, which bundles the catalogs of BMG, Warner Music and EMI, plans to license music for online...
...mode has 27.8 million customers and accounts for 60% of the domestic market. The firm has applications that consumers love - games, Hello Kitty screensavers - but also a business model that makes money from data fees, billing commissions and additional voice minutes. Now Tachikawa is moving beyond Japan, taking minority stakes in Britain's Hutchison 3G, the mobile unit of Dutch carrier KPN and AT&T Wireless in the U.S. He has also bought a controlling stake in AOL Japan, which he is recasting as DoCoMo...