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Arkin also pointed out that the number of cluster bombs used in Yugoslavia was a mere fraction of the number sprayed over Iraq, and that this is already a recognition of "the adverse humanitarian impact" of these bombs...
...harder for the myriad voices necessary in a democracy to find outlets. "I get very nervous when more and more control moves into fewer and fewer hands," warns Senator Mike DeWine, an Ohio Republican and chairman of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights and Competition. "This is not a mere commodity we're talking about. It's something more fundamental--information in a democracy...
...Compaq. (And two minutes on each to lose $5,000 in Texas Hold 'Em.) Installing the morbidly obese Microsoft Office 2000 took 7 min. 40 sec. on the Dell but 6 min. 30 sec. on the Compaq. Starting up Word on both PCs was so fast (mere tenths of seconds) that I couldn't accurately record it on my stopwatch. Getting rid of that hideous animated paper-clip help guy, however, took way too long, though you can blame this on Microsoft, not chip speed...
...Smith concludes, also highly unlikely that Dodi and Diana were planning to marry. Not only was that final diamond ring he bought her "vulgar," according to a friend, but, Smith writes, "the days they spent alone were a mere 25. They floated along in an existence that was intense and unreal...[Their romance] was perhaps the clearest evidence that she had made little progress in dealing with her demons." Two summers ago, her fans wept, saying, Diana, we hardly knew ye. With this book, it is now safe to say, Diana, we know more than enough...
...GOING TO BE A LONG YEAR With elections a mere 14 months away, the Senate race in New York, which looks to pit a First Lady, Hillary Clinton, against a popular mayor, Rudy Giuliani, has become the one to handicap. No event in the state or the lives of the two candidates is so trivial as to have no ramifications for the campaign. This week...