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...exuded nonchalance when challenged on the topic. He laughed during a debate in California when he was asked by CNN's Jeff Greenfield about a lawyer nodding off during a trial in which a man was sentenced to die. When Bush addressed the question, he said, "I'm absolutely confident that everybody that has been put to death is two things: one, they're guilty of the crime charged, and secondly, they had full access to our courts." When asked in the past what had been his biggest mistake in life, he didn't cite anything weightier than trading away...
...pair may finalize a deal to each destroy 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium, but White House aides are setting expectations very, very low on the Star Wars discussions. "I do not expect any agreements to be reached on these issues," National Security Adviser Samuel Berger told CNN on Sunday. Anti-Western sentiment in Russia over NATO and Kosovo has mushroomed in the past few years, and the country is still mired in economic decrepitude despite the IMF's best efforts. Add years of non-progress on arms-control, and Berger may have unwittingly summed up Clinton's Russia...
...There are face-offs at every level. Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson are duking it out over smart phones. Microsoft's Pocket PC is squaring off against Palm, which has nearly 70% of the handheld market. AT&T, SPRINT PCS, MCI and the Baby Bells want to provide the connections. CNN, ESPN and everyone else want to provide the "news nuggets" and other customized content...
...study has generated a significant amount of attention from the press. Aside from numerous newspaper articles, Thompson has been interviewed for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and has appeared on MSNBC and CNN...
...danger we face is that of celebrating too soon a global unity that only covers much deeper divisions. Much of the world is linked, more than ever before, by common surfaces: people on every continent may be watching Michael Jordan advertising Nike shoes on CNN. But beneath the surface, inevitably, traditional differences remain. George Bernard Shaw declared generations ago that England and America were two countries divided by a common language. Now the world often resembles 200 countries divided by a common frame of cultural reference. The number of countries on the planet, in the 20th century, has more than...