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...rose so fast, Powell has remarkably few enemies - but his renown was earned as that of a no-nonsense facilitator who could make the trains run on time, rather than as a thinker or innovator. When the time came for war, he organized the winning team on Operation Desert Storm. But he hadn't exactly been gung ho about the need to fight in the first place. Powell had, in fact, expressed deep reservations about responding with military force to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. That, perhaps, was his job - after all, he was the chairman of the Joint...
...Finally, at the center of a brewing storm: Norton and Ashcroft. During the Reagan administration, Norton worked under Interior Secretary James Watt, who almost single-handedly galvanized the environmental movement with his pro-business policies. Norton has engaged congressional Democrats before - when she tried unsuccessfully to convince them to open the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration. To many environmentalists, Norton's tendency to consider corporate interests when making land-use decisions, considered alongside Bush's repeated insistence that current land protection policies are too broad, lead many environmentalists to fear Norton could represent the worst-case scenario for America...
...April 25 the Green Mountain State's legislators passed a bill allowing same-sex couples to enter into "civil unions." Everyone involved knew there was a fire storm of protest coming; even some supporters of the bill took pains to insist that the state had not become the first in the land to license gay marriage. But it sure looked that way as civil-union partners were guaranteed a laundry list of rights--in areas of child custody, family leave, inheritance, insurance--traditionally reserved for the traditionally wed. "This is really very emotional," said gay-rights advocate Paula Ettelbrick after...
Marion Jones left Sydney with three gold medals (for the 100-m sprint, the 200 m and the 4 x 400-m relay), two bronzes (for the long jump and the 4 x 100-m relay) and a massive headache, having faced a storm of questions about her husband, injured shot-putter C.J. Hunter, whose positive tests for steroid use were revealed during the Games. Of Jones' ups and downs, the one to remember was the first. In the 100 m she blazed to a time of 10.75 secs. and the largest margin of victory in that race since...
...synergy? The two companies have already found ways to boost growth by cross-selling subscriptions and advertising and running promotions for Time Warner content on AOL. Last summer a promotion on AOL is credited with boosting box-office returns for The Perfect Storm. Perhaps the best success so far has come from collaboration between Time Inc. president Don Logan and Pittman, who engineered a scheme to sell magazine subscriptions via AOL. So far, the combination has produced more than 500,000 orders...