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...only at the last minute that Chinese officials announced that they would go along with the U.S. request to broadcast the session live--a significant concession to Clinton. The press conference ran 70 minutes, far longer than its allotted 30 minutes, leading the government-TV anchor to note dryly that "it seems communication needs time." After decades of tensions, China and America still seem to need all the time they...
...phoned her two more times during the hour it took her to get to my home (she lives five minutes away). With parents like that, it's no wonder that so many kids are out of control. The next day I bought my son condoms. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Plano, Texas...
...testimony from a bevy of experts. Assembling that mountain of evidence would have taken far too much time when suing one of the world's fastest-moving companies, the government decided. "They took a risk in asking for the injunction and they knew that the factual foundation for the request was going to be very austere. They took a chance. They gambled a bit here," says William Kovacic, a law professor at George Mason University and former FTC official who specializes in antitrust...
...Starr's request just violated too many notions of what the legal profession is," says TIME deputy Washington bureau chief Jef McAllister. "So many people, before they die, go to a lawyer to settle their affairs and tell their secrets. The Justices weren't willing to let that relationship be ruptured...
...flaw in such reports is that they mistake reticence for inaction. Most companies are purposely saying as little as possible about the issue in their public disclosures. Hock concedes that the sec's information request was both voluntary and vague, and that big companies have a natural tendency to clam up about business operations and potential liabilities. The majority of firms, says Hock, do seem to be focusing on their most critical systems--a strategy that should spare us from catastrophic consequences. "There will be some extremely annoying, disruptive failures," says Hock. "But it's not going...