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...Plus" and Bush's "Social Security Minus"). Next came Gore's mild distortion of Texas' budget shortfall--saying Bush had squandered the surplus on a "tax cut for the wealthy," when more money went to give teachers a pay raise. Then came his attacks on Dick Cheney's voting record in the House (never mind that Gore voted the same way on a few issues...
Tokyo seemed hurt and disgusted by the recall affair. Bridgestone bought Firestone in 1988, a decade after the American firm nearly sank in the aftermath of another recall--a record 14.5 million tires in 1978. "We spent the past 10 years trying to rebuild the image of Firestone," says Kenichi Kitawaki, Bridgestone's p.r. manager. "Then this happened...
Google doesn't need them. In the past six months alone, the site has won a Webby (the online version of the Oscar) for technical excellence, set a new record for search engines by indexing a billion Web pages, and got tapped by industry giant Yahoo to become its default search engine (the one you're sent to automatically if Yahoo can't come up with the goods...
...self-esteem, they tend to be victims of psychic damage as well. Most come from homes in which discipline is administered inconsistently or through physical means. They often fail to learn effective methods of problem solving, and by some estimates 1 in 4 chronic bullies will have a criminal record...
With the Fugees, whose 1996 record The Score sold more than 5 million copies, on indefinite hiatus, Wyclef has ventured out on his own. His 1997 solo debut, The Carnival, sold almost 2 million copies. Now his new CD, The Ecleftic--2 Sides II a Book (Columbia), is garnering some of the best reviews of any rap release this year. Rolling Stone called it "the most pleasingly direct yet musically adventurous hip-hop long-player you're likely to hear all year." The hip-hop magazine Source gave it 4 1/2 microphones out of 5--half a mike more than...