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...dropped when Democrats objected. In August the FCC moved to allow many of the changes McCain wanted. One result: Paxson's stock price jumped more than 30% as it became more attractive to other large broadcasters. McCain said last week that his job as Commerce Committee chairman "is to make the bureaucrats work for the people." But when it helps contributors too, McCain the reformer--fairly or not--has a problem...
...guys in a room who want to make peace. Now how do you get them to ice the deal? That's the trick for President Clinton, who is just as eager as are Israel and Syria for the two old enemies to reach a land-for-peace agreement that would add real luster to his presidential legacy...
...motto is, "Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself." This culture of self-sacrifice and frugality means that Chambers and all top execs fly coach and have no reserved parking spaces. The same quest for efficiency has driven Cisco to make cutting-edge use internally of the networks it sells to other companies. Everything at Cisco--from health-insurance issues to softball schedules--is available on the Web. Already, Cisco makes 84% of its sales over the Web, accounting in 1999 for about $9.5 billion in business-to-business e-commerce...
...fill his big eyes with a vision of his father, a 31-year-old hotel security guard and Communist Party member who lives in Cardenas, a small town east of Havana. Juan Miguel hasn't cut his hair since Elian left, because it was their habit to make the trip to the barber together. It's a trip they'll have to make in the future on foot, since Juan Miguel sold his 1956 Nash Rambler last month to help pay for the calls he makes regularly to his son in Miami...
Senate Foreign Relations chairman Helms announced plans to make Elian a U.S. citizen when Congress reconvenes Jan. 24--a move that could stall repatriation procedures. Though conservatives regularly uphold the sanctity of the family against intrusions by the government, Helms and others have reversed course in this case. Explains Jose Garcia Pedrosa, a lawyer fighting to keep Elian in the U.S.: "Which kind of a family is a less important factor in how this boy should be raised than which kind of state...