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...advertising, the defeat of the Hindu-nationalist government of Atal Behari Vajpayee's BJP had a lot more to do with the economy. By many measures, that's a rising star, with growth rates and a booming tech sector that make it the toast of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Hence Vajpayee's decision to call an early election, advised by his handlers that he would surf the crest of the economic good times his liberalization policies had produced. "India is shining" was the slogan chosen by the BJP to encapsulate the message that Vajpayee had brought economic achievements unparalleled...
...what he says to meet the tastes of the audience and the moment. Asked on Earth Day whether he owns a gas-gobbling SUV, the champion of higher fuel-efficiency standards first said no, then admitted under questioning that, yes, that was a Suburban parked at his Sun Valley, Idaho, vacation house. Next, he distanced himself from his own driveway: "The family has it. I don't have it." It was a far different story, however, when Kerry visited car-loving Detroit last February. Back then, he exulted to local reporters about how much horsepower he commands: "We have some...
...worst-kept secret in Silicon Valley is finally out: Google, the Internet search engine with legions of digital devotees, will sell shares to the public sometime this summer. The crush of interest that has surrounded what will be a highly unusual initial public offering (IPO) of stock is in many ways justified. Google is that rare Internet success story--profitable since 2001, with revenue that soared nearly threefold since then, to $962 million, last year...
...those barriers had been firmly in place since the mid-1980s. But if blame for insufficient terror-fighting tools is being doled out, maybe Ashcroft is in for a bit too. When Janet Reno's Justice Department protested efforts in the 1990s to make it easier for Silicon Valley to export encryption technology overseas, then-Senator Ashcroft seemed unconcerned with her contention that terrorists were turning to Internet encryption to communicate. One example she, FBI head Louis Freeh and others in law enforcement cited: Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing, used encryption to hide details of his plot...
...have a chance of hitting it big and finding a supercharged Googleified rocket ship. As I drove out of the parking lot and cruised up 101 North toward San Francisco, the sun was shining brightly, the fog had lifted and it was as if the whole of Silicon Valley cried out, "We're baaaaack...