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...matter of personal choice. But given that President Bush is a proponent of positive reinforcement (the constituent votes, you give him a cookie) - far more so, anyway, than Al Gore might have been (the constituent can?t figure out the darn ballot, you spend the next four years taking pot-shots at his intelligence) - I suspect the current administration will favor of a reward-based voting system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Reform: You Want Our Votes? Make It Worth Our While | 7/31/2001 | See Source »

Unless the DOJ clips Orbitz's wings, the site is likely to put the squeeze on independent agents like Expedia. "Orbitz isn't going to put Travelocity or Expedia out of business, but it's going to stir up the pot," says Harteveldt, who expects Web travel sales to top $29 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Your Service: The Orbitz Blitz | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...brown sofa, smoking a gigantic spliff while a pirated VCD of 3,000 Miles to Graceland blares in the background, he talks about how Laos is at an inflection point. "It could become this really cool place, or it could just turn to s___," he says, exhaling pot smoke. Dillon concedes that a strip of bars and restaurants blaring videos would ruin the backwater ambiance. "But you've got to give the people what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pipe Dreams | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...Fitz explains that he's trying to taper off. And he plans to smuggle into Thailand a few opium pellets that he can boil in a pot of tea and drink. He'll be getting out, he swears. He's not going to stay in some Lao backwater, the Asian equivalent of Appalachia, just because the dope is cheap and plentiful. You want to believe him, you really do, but you just know he's not going anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pipe Dreams | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...unfortunate enough to belong to any of the territory?s non-Albanian minorities). But the nation-building project remains somewhat stillborn: democratic elections in the various ethnic cantons of Bosnia routinely return ultra-nationalist governments who show little interest in moving the territory towards any sort of multicultural melting pot. And in Kosovo, even though the moderate Ibrahim Rugova trounced the hawks of the erstwhile Kosovo Liberation Army at the polls in local elections, it is those hawks that continue to set the agenda by their cross-border military adventurism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Plays it Clinton-esque in Kosovo | 7/24/2001 | See Source »

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