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...checked with friends at HotWired, CNET, CNN Interactive and other Websites, and everyone was optimistic. ("Cha-ching!" was how a pal at HotWired put it.) The more traffic to your site, you see, the more you can charge advertisers, theoretically. That may sound venal, but it's been lean out here. A lot of Websites have died for lack of revenue. Thanks to IE 4, traffic is way up, in some cases more than 25%. Within two weeks, visits at TIME Daily doubled, to 500,000 page views a week. We still have to convince advertisers that people...
...Security Council spokesperson P.J. Crowley, is a group of 175 media representatives organized by the Chinese government to travel with Jiang on his visit to the U.S. It consists primarily of Chinese reporters, but also includes a number of international media representatives and reporters from Japan, the BBC and CNN...
...named China's President. But his perch at the top was extremely tenuous, almost entirely dependent on Deng's support. For that reason, Jiang was as reticent and correct as possible in his first years in power. When CNN interviewed the new President in 1993, he wanted to read all his answers from a TelePrompTer. On those occasions when he allowed himself a little spontaneity, it tended to backfire. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, he described the Tiananmen killings as "much ado about nothing," prompting outrage in the West. "He is a lightweight," decided a Clinton Administration official...
...fanatical fighters stormed into the capital of Kabul a year ago. Here the young, often illiterate "students," who developed their extremist interpretation of Islam in the refugee camps of Pakistan during the 1979-89 war against the Soviet occupation, are a law unto themselves. In 1996, when my CNN team witnessed the beginning of their enforcement of their version of Koranic law, I challenged Taliban "ministers" to explain, and they told me all women's rights would be restored "once the security situation improves...
Christiane Amanpour is chief international correspondent for CNN...