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...international diplomats will take lying down, since the U.S. strenuously avoided even discussing the matter at the U.N. when it went to war in Kosovo, and since the international body?s resources crisis isn?t exactly helped by the fact that Washington is delinquent in its dues to the tune of $1 billion...
...with a 2.7 percent increase in the average blue-collar wage. If you?re slaving away for the median employee?s annual income of $29,267, then the fact that Disney CEO Michael Eisner was paid $576 million last year is bound to get you whistling a Woody Guthrie tune. Never mind if you?re in the developing world and have have to swallow the fact that the combined worth of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Paul Allen ($156 billion) is greater than the combined GNP of the world?s 43 poorest countries...
...TEMPTING TUNES RealNetworks is making it harder than ever to resist the allure of digital music. Last week it announced a $30 version of its popular RealJukebox music player and recorder (available at real.com) which lets people make exact digital replicas of songs from their CDs in the MP3 format, with no degradation of sound quality--an MP3 first. With a 10-band graphic equalizer, users can fine-tune playback; new "skins" (colorful covers) can also be superimposed on the user interface so it looks as spiffy as the music sounds...
...impressive riff, but is it a tune for today? Brown is coming out with an old-fashioned general-interest magazine, like Look or LIFE, at a time when publishing is gaga for websites and niches. Yet if anyone could dust off the genre, it's probably Brown, one of America's most successful magazine editors--if you're measuring in buzz rather than bucks. She's the one who put the glitz into Vanity Fair and the news into the New Yorker. When an editor who's won an astonishing 14 National Magazine Awards decides to cook from scratch, expectations...
Since starting in Congress as one of the few new Democrats after the Republican rout of 1994, Kennedy, then 27, worked hard to shed the "Congressboy" image that led a local radio station to mock him by playing the tune If I Only Had a Brain. One who has been impressed is House minority leader Dick Gephardt. The two men share the same left-of-center ideology, and Kennedy has proved his determination and drive to his mentor through tireless campaigning for other House members and fireplug advocacy of such causes as education and health care...