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...prayers into a global-media conglomerate. The company owns three of Germany's national television networks, and its alliance with AOL created one of the largest online services in Europe. The company also plans to start an online bookstore to compete with Amazon.com It recently developed and will test a voice-over Internet service in several European countries, giving Bertelsmann the means to deliver all its own content...
...they're under a lot of pressure to make a deal," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "So they'll be hoping to get concessions in the last rounds of talks to make it easier to sell their constituencies the parts that are hard to swallow." The real test, though, will be selling the compromise to communities that have been at war for three decades: Whatever agreement the politicians reach by Thursday will be put to the vote in a referendum late...
...League rival Cornell Saturday at 1 p.m. at Ohiri field. The Big Red is sitting atop the Ivy League standings with wins over Penn and Yale. In order to secure an NCAA berth, the Crimson cannot afford to drop winnable games, which makes this a very significant midseason test...
President Clinton's recent difficulties have tested the loyalty of his closest advisors and former advisors. One might argue that some, like George Stephanopoulos (who has gone on record with his concern over Clinton's alleged actions), have failed that test of loyalty. Gates seems to believe that he did, noting near the end of his piece that often "loyalty must give way to 'principle'--this we know--but aren't there times, too, when principle must give way to loyalty?" But I'm not sure it's quite that simple. Three portraits of loyalty--two historical...
...analyst at ABC, the first in Clinton's circle (past or present) to suggest that the President's alleged actions might call for impeachment. Such an apparent about-face, from the behind-the-scenes commitment in 1992 to the public concern in 1998, certainly seems to indicate a failed test of loyalty...