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...late August, Middelhoff decided to go after Napster himself. Ironically, he came to that conclusion after a meeting with Seagram chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr., a staunch Napster foe, in which they discussed ways to resolve the Napster question. "We walked out of Edgar's office, and Thomas and I looked at each other, and it just clicked," says Andreas Schmidt, president of the Bertelsmann E Commerce Group, who orchestrated the partnership. That day Schmidt got on the phone to Napster CEO Hank Barry and began eight weeks of intense transcontinental negotiations, from San Francisco to Miami, New York City...
...Gore-Lieberman campaign has wavered in its support for voucher-related programs. Though Gore refuses to consider the solution, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) was a staunch supporter of vouchers until he joined the ticket. Bush, however, supports giving $1,500 per child in federal funding to the parents of students at consistently low-performing schools for use towards their children's education. As this money could go to a public school, tutoring or a private school, charges that the plan would take away money from public schools are essentially unfounded. Bush also saves money by allowing public-private...
This is not to imply that everyone who has seen "West Wing" is so enamoured. The show has draw catcalls from conservative viewers, who point the thinly-veiled liberal Hollywood bias evident in everything from the fictional administration's rejection of school vouchers to their staunch gun control position. An even bigger criticism, oddly enough, is the flip side of one of the show's most charming aspects; it's unsinkable sanguinity. The episodes often end on an upbeat moment, a trend that naysayers find both unrealistic and nauseatingly touchy-feely. I have a good friend who refuses to watch...
Neither did anyone else. The obscure 56-year-old constitutional lawyer is an unlikely savior of his nation. He is calm to the point of boring. He has labored for years in the backwaters of Serbian politics without making much of an impression. As a staunch anticommunist--and a zealous Serb nationalist who criticized past Yugoslav leaders for compromising Serb rights--he riled communist boss Josip Broz Tito enough in 1974 to get himself fired from his professorship at Belgrade University. When the opportunistic Milosevic, in a campaign to win over intellectuals, offered him the job back in 1989, Kostunica...
...Cheney gets a chance, he could inflict a few blows on his opponent: Lieberman is vulnerable on his once staunch opposition to Hollywood-sponsored violence, which has dwindled considerably in the past few months of spectacular fundraising efforts in Los Angeles. Cheney's best shots, however, will probably come in the form of attacks on Gore's policy record and fundraising practices...