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...kidding? Movie people--behave? Not with tens of millions of dollars in increased revenue from ticket sales and video rentals at stake. Not when it means ownership of a gold-plated statuette the whole town openly covets. Not with Russell Crowe and Matt Drudge around...
...paranoia. We have seen that what is possible is more horrific than we could have imagined," says Naomi Fine, president and CEO of PRO-TEC DATA, a leader in the field of information security. "We see now the potential is that everything can be lost. Literally, everything is at stake...
...turned out to be a lost decade and the history of those years, in the words of a U.S. diplomat, are best viewed as "a case study in state-sponsored looting." This week Ukraine is coming to the end of another bitter, rancorous and accusation-filled election. Officially at stake are the 450 seats in the parliament, or Verkhovna Rada. The most powerful challenge to Kuchma comes from Viktor Yuschenko, who acquired a modest reputation as a reformer during his time as Prime Minister and whose Our Ukraine bloc is way ahead in the polls. Yuschenko promises that...
...problem we have with transient tenants has to do with the student population—they can be rowdy, noisy and inconsiderate,” Mellone says. “We’d rather have people who are stake-holders in the community...
During the Senate debate on the bill, Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) trivialized the issues at stake by showing, according to The New York Times, “an enlarged photo of a tiny, purple, one-seat European car,” and said, “I don’t want Americans to have to drive this car.” His refusal to directly address the consequences of higher mileage standards was irresponsible and insincere, but we expect no better from Lott...