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...Clinton Administration hurt itself by steadfastly overlooking Russia's failures. Officials complained privately to Moscow from time to time about rampant corruption, but to listen to them now you'd think it had been at the top of their list for years. Suddenly they are trumpeting Clinton's stern warning recently to the latest Russian Prime Minister that corruption "could eat the heart out of Russian society." Last week Secretary of State Madeleine Albright acknowledged that the "Herculean task" of transforming Russia has not been "fully achieved...
...seas were really high, the wind was really high, and the tension was up there too. About 15 minutes after we got into the water, we watched the tug sink. She looked pretty much like the Titanic, except the Gulf Majesty went down stern first. I'd been with her about two years, and my heart was really in her. My IBM laptop, my guitar, $500 worth of cigars, and the only picture I had of my father--he died in 1985--went down with the ship...
...long time; come over and talk to me about CBS.'" Karmazin approached his talk with Redstone as if he were a prospective investor, highlighting CBS's strong network of affiliates and its prime radio stations and outdoor-advertising assets and reminding Redstone of talent such as Howard Stern, Don Imus and David Letterman...
...took Karmazin less than two years after arriving at CBS to replace CEO Jordan and move into his office suite. Karmazin's business strategy has been bluntly effective: pay top dollar for what he calls "oceanfront property"--prime stations in major markets, celebrities like Stern and Imus, the rights to the NFL--and then look to recoup the money by slashing administrative and staffing costs and running the tightest of ships...
What about other reasons cited for the law? Stern of the American Jewish Congress, who helped write the bill, says Orthodox Jewish and Native American families should not have to beg officials not to perform autopsies on their relatives. He cited a case in Eagle Pass, Texas, in which a federal judge ruled in favor of an autopsy on a member of the Kickapoo tribe who justice of the peace Martha Chacon believed might have been murdered. The judge said the state's interest in finding the truth trumped the tribe's religious concerns. In the end, though, Chacon decided...