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...customers in Bhutan as in Manhattan. AT&T, for instance, has formed a joint venture with BritishTelecom, called Concert, that is designed to help build a one-stop global phone network for businesses. This is possible because national phone companies, which were once tightly controlled by governments, are suddenly open to international competition just about everywhere in the world. In coming decades, AT&T, Vodafone and others expect to be competing for customers in places like China and India in the same way they compete today for U.S. and European callers. The mid-dinner telemarketing call ("Mr. Jones...
...much red," intones former Detective Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher), returning to his old Baltimore squadroom and spying the whiteboard. Red ink means open cases; black, solved. That is, red means lack of closure, as when NBC iced this humanistic cop drama unceremoniously last spring. Pembleton, Detective Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor) and most of the series' diasporic crew investigate the shooting of Lieut. Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto), now a mayoral candidate. The case is mostly pro forma, but its powerful yet tender epilogue writes Homicide's epitaph in emotionally satisfying black...
...WIDE-OPEN PRIMARIES Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont (3/7), Utah (3/10), Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas (3/14...
...SORT-OF-OPEN PRIMARIES South Carolina (2/19), Michigan (2/22), Virginia (2/29), Maryland...
ANALYSIS Independent voters here might just as well throw their vote away. The primary is ostensibly open, but when it comes to awarding delegates, Democrats and Republicans alike plan to count only the votes of registered party members. The overall vote results are thus a nonbinding "beauty contest...