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...recent days, President Clinton has approved steps to make the peace process irreversible, and give each party a clear stake in its success...
...have a stake in establishing a precedent that will deter future atrocities, in helping the tribunal make a lasting peace easier by separating the innocent from the guilty; in holding accountable the perpetrators of ethnic cleansing; and in seeing that those who consider rape just another tactic of war answer for their crimes. Since George Marshall's time, the United States has played the leading role within the international system--not as sole arbiter of right and wrong, for that is a responsibility widely shared, but as pathfinder--as the nation able to show the way when others cannot...
...convergence of television and computers got a big push last week when a couple of digital-era bosses, Microsoft king Bill Gates and Brian Roberts, president of Comcast Corp., agreed on a deal in which Microsoft will invest $1 billion for an 11.5% stake in the Philadelphia company, the nation's fourth largest cable operator, with 4.3 million subscribers. Gates and Roberts intend to provide what the other cable guys promised years ago and so far have been unable to deliver: a new set of digital services and a bigger pipeline to pump it through. For viewers that means more...
...Ralph, 77, who own 7% of Comcast stock, have spent billions building up a collection of programming and telecom services. The list includes 57% of QVC (home shopping); a 68.8% piece of E! Entertainment (programming); the N.B.A.'s Philadelphia 76ers and the N.H.L.'s Flyers (more programming); a 20% stake in Teleport Communications Group (business telephone service); and a 15% position in Sprint Spectrum (cellular telephones...
...acts committed by unmarried persons of different sexes are not yet a crime, unless the seduction was accomplished through the use of witchcraft or "black magic," in which case the female party will be burned at the stake, as regulations require. Sex acts between people of the same sex are, of course, anatomically impossible...