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...evil that Newmark believes he is fighting is spammers, scammers and other cyberparasites who threaten to chase away his site's loyal following. "The culture of trust we've built is a really big deal," says Newmark, 50, who spends most of his workdays patrolling the message boards and dealing with customer-service problems reported by members. "We have to re-earn that every...
...they can be on their own, which they love," says Candace Ferguson, mom to Chad and his brother Benton, 10. "But I can tell you that there are times I'm way too tired, and they're always asking to go. If they're acting out, I threaten we won't go, and it works...
...political will to run China's contentious Cabinet while managing a trillion-dollar economy, overseeing the layoffs of millions of angry workers in state companies and forcing another round of market-friendly reforms on the entrenched bureaucracy. "If he remains wishy-washy, we'll get policy paralysis that will threaten reforms," says Joseph Cheng, a political scientist at the City University of Hong Kong...
Hence the French dilemma. "If they veto," says a U.N. diplomat, "that's a permanent slap at the U.S.'s face--very dangerous--and they threaten to make the Security Council irrelevant. If France abstains, it's not a player. If it votes yes, Chirac looks like a weather vane." Small wonder that, according to several sources, French Foreign Minister de Villepin was openly agitated--"shrill," said one observer--at the meetings in New York last week. ("All you talk about is war. That's all you want to talk about," de Villepin said to Powell at a lunch after...
...much to fear from proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, but the fear is reaching paranoid levels. Though actions of the Chinese government may not always be perceived as friendly, it is quite a leap to suggest that a regime which bullies its denizens is poised to threaten the U.S. Regardless of its heinous record in human rights, China is self-interested like all nations and probably favors economic development over ruinous war. Unlike North Korea, there has been no indication that the leaders in Beijing are outright mad in their approach to diplomacy. Though espionage remains a serious issue...