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...Washington credentials. Taking the arm of an experienced elder is something he learned to do in Texas when, as a neophyte Governor in 1995, he apprenticed himself to Democratic Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock, the late master of Lone Star politics. Bush is doing the same with Cheney, 59, who, although just five years his senior, was already White House chief of staff when the G.O.P. nominee was still drifting through his "nomadic years" in Texas...
What optical-networking companies do is provide the equipment--filters, amplifiers, converters--and systems to companies that are feverishly building out the Internet, such as Level 3, AT&T and Qwest. Although optical fibers that transmit light waves have been around since the 1970s, only in the past few years have companies like JDS Uniphase and Corning figured out how to send prodigious amounts of information through those fibers by dividing light waves into channels and then packing data into each channel. A single channel is like a light bulb going on and off 10 billion times a second, flashing...
...lady's back again, and this time she looks a lot like a ghetto cowgirl. MADONNA, 41, releases her first single from her 14th album--both titled Music--on Tuesday, and Borderline it ain't. Although most of the record-buying public has said heck no to techno, Music, partly produced by Frenchman Mirwais Ahmadzai, revels in the heretofore ignored world of Gallic dance-club music. The video for Music, also due out this week, places Madonna on more familiar ground, vamping around with girl pals DEBI MAZAR, right, and backup singer NIKKI HARRIS in the back of a limo...
...JEAN CHRETIEN: The signature is more forceful than the rest of the writing, which suggests that although he presents himself well, he is probably more comfortable out of the spotlight...
...Although Wrinn dismissed the importance of the PTO decision, he did say that the University would submit that evidence in the trial's discovery phase...