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...face of fierce criticism over its Elian Gonzalez interview, that it had excised the portion in which he expresses his desire to remain in the U.S. The decision had been taken "so as not to take a position in this highly charged political atmosphere," said ABC News president David Westin, adding that Elian's views on the subject of returning to Cuba were contradictory - a teaser that will only increase the clamor to broadcast the tape...
...this Westin Hotel Convention Center, just east of San Jose, Calif., a revival meeting is in progress. Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, 50, struts across the stage wearing a gray tweed suit and preaching the gospel of the network to a packed, 8,000-strong congregation of the converted. We have made great strides, Chambers drawls in his West Virginian birch-beer-sweet voice, but we need to be ever vigilant, for around the corner, right outside this hall, lurks the enemy--Nortel, Lucent and start-up companies we've never heard of, jesters who would steal our cybercrown...
...needs a new alias. Members of the wholesome pop quintet have been checking into hotels under the pseudonym Ron Jeremy, star of such X-rated fare as Wild Wild Chest and Black Cherry Co-Eds 3. This was fine until the real RON JEREMY took a room at the Westin in Edmonton, Alta., while the band was there. He was bombarded with phone calls from baby-sitters around the globe (apparently the alias isn't much of a secret) hoping to speak to their favorite 'N Sync-er. "I had some of the funniest conversations with these 12-year...
...phrase sits there on the giant monitors, and 2,000 Amazonians packing the Seattle Westin for a quarterly "all hands" meeting listen raptly while Jeff Bezos explains what it means. There are two types of businesses, he tells the troops: baby businesses, which need growth and feeding, and adult businesses, which must pay their own way. This brings him to B, M and V, which stand for books, music and video, Amazon's three oldest product lines. And the P is the news, for this trinity is nearing adulthood. "By the end of the year 2000," Bezos says...
Early Wednesday morning Bill Clinton arrived. After being driven through the streets of broken glass and police lines, he ascended to a suite on an upper floor at the Westin Hotel and flipped on local news, where he saw for the first time the scenes of chaos that had raged all around his hotel earlier that...