Word: warriors
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...Last Friday, however, the boys captured the warrior queen of the girls. In a surprising deal, the network signed away "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," The WB's second-highest-rated show and probably its most prestigious - the show that consistently lands on critics' best lists and single-handedly established the network's image of offbeat and fantastical shows with a dose of girl power. In its fifth season, the makers of "Buffy," and its producer, Fox Television, wanted a substantial jump in the approximately $1 million an episode the network had been paying. (As with many series, this meant operating...
George W. Bush is in the process of finding out. As a youthful candidate who wanted to be taken seriously despite his inexperience in foreign affairs, he struck a tough-guy pose, compensating for shallow knowledge by adopting the combative tone of a cold warrior. Guided by advisers steeped in anticommunism, Candidate Bush sought to contrast his hard-eyed "realism" with a Clinton-Gore idealism that he called bereft of core principles and dominated by a misguided desire to insert Washington into global peacemaking. The easiest way to mark the distinction was to talk up Russia and China as nations...
...pizzas higher than his rival's and is offering 30 varieties with a choice of three different crusts for a total of 90 combinations to Pizza Hut's 11. "If Thais see a better pizza, they will pay more for it,'' he says. As he leads his mounted pizza warriors through Bangkok's hot, steamy night, he seems more than a mere pizza man. He is indeed a warrior with a mission: build a better pizza and they will come, he assures his troops. And throw on more sauce, extra toppings and a few different crust options, and they might...
George W. Bush is in the process of finding out. As a youthful candidate who wanted to be taken seriously despite his inexperience in foreign affairs, he struck a tough-guy pose, compensating for shallow knowledge by adopting the combative tone of a cold warrior. Guided by advisers steeped in anticommunism, Candidate Bush sought to contrast his hard-eyed "realism" with a Clinton-Gore idealism that he called bereft of core principles and dominated by a misguided desire to insert Washington into global peacemaking. The easiest way to mark the distinction was to talk up Russia and China as nations...
...danger for the pharmaceutical industry, of course, is that the battle over AIDS drugs has fashioned a new solidarity among Third World governments, which, despite their capitalist orientation, seek to challenge the terms of trade with the industrialized world. And that's a battle the Quixotic old warrior in Havana is only too willing to join...