Word: powers
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Well, whatever; if a little fudging allows NBC to soak a few more dollars out of Visa for its annoying ads, more power to them. But NBC has hardly solved its problem. The factors dragging down its ratings - tape delays, too many up-close-and- personals, results being reported by an increasingly fast media (online and off) - will still be there (in the case of online media, tenfold) when NBC returns to Athens in 2004. The halcyon days when results were padlocked by a benign media dictatorship are over, thankfully. NBC's real problem is believing that its ratings have...
...Although the results conceded by the electoral commission are a tremendous psychological blow for Milosevic - he's been forced to acknowledge that he's not the popular choice for president - he retains considerable power. He may yet decide to tough it out, relying on the police and, if necessary, the military, to suppress opposition activity. Meanwhile, as he massages the election results to his advantage, he is probably savoring the possibility that an opposition boycott of any runnoff election might give him an opportunity to fraudulently reclaim the presidency. Mass protests may even prompt him to declare an emergency...
...wrote this book in the conviction that we could very well be at the dawn of a new golden age, with the power to bring enormous good into the world," Gergen told his audience...
...concerns over Lee's civil rights for a moment, it's worth questioning how Director Freeh's testimony will actually help the FBI. After all, if the senators and the wider public actually do buy into a portrait of Wen Ho Lee as a devious consort of a foreign power hungry for U.S. nuclear secrets, they're as likely to believe that by getting away only with time served on a single felony count he made the feds look silly...
...Bank president James] Wolfensohn and [current IMF head Horst] Kohler have become extremely important allies for us," Manuel told the New York Times. "Our real problem is the U.S., Britain and France," he said, referring to those countries' reluctance to deliver on promises of debt relief and to share power in the international financial institutions. "The protesters seem not to understand these things...