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...battles if Bush gets to nominate new Supreme Court Justices. Some House members predict titanic battles over just about anything that happens in 2001. Aggrievement is a handy political tool, of course, and some of it no doubt is being manufactured by politicians who would love to see Bush fail so they could pick up seats in 2002. But even as lawmakers speak publicly of bipartisanship and healing, they speak privately of the deep pessimism that has settled over Washington. One hears it not simply from liberals but also from moderates in both parties who had been bullish about Bush...
...scenes; he says he already has the 60 votes he needs to get it out of the Senate. Bush allies will try to insert a so-called paycheck-protection provision into the bill, an anti-union poison pill that would strip it of needed Democratic support. But if they fail and it lands on Bush's desk, he must either sign it--detonating his right wing--or veto it, a disastrous way to introduce himself to Americans...
...mergers often fail (see DaimlerChrysler and AT&T/TCI). In a staff memo just days after the merger was announced, Case and Levin asserted that the new company would "fundamentally change the way people communicate." That's a tall order. And no matter how hot the paradigm or how far and fast the technology reaches, AOL Time Warner is still in the business of satisfying finicky consumers, who want content from everybody, for nothing if possible. It will take more than synergy for this new Internet-age media colossus to succeed. And as Case and Levin would be the first...
...attitudes towards energy and the environment in general, but unfettered capitalism is not the way to achieve that change. The solution to the energy crisis lies in our ability and willingness to prioritize conservation and the environment as a group, and it is precisely here that economic conservatives fail...
Though upstarts in Hollywood terms, most of them have been around the German scene for 20 years or more, eking out an existence buying German-language rights to non-German films, then selling the product to cinemas and TV stations. Like film producers, such distributors succeed or fail on the basis of their ability to pick winners and avoid losers. But while a producer can control cost and content from day one, distributors bid on individual films or bundles of films that are already in the can. It made sense, therefore, that someone who can make money with his hands...