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...dogmatic ideologue? Or a tame puppet? Last November the enigmatic Hu Jintao became CCP Chairman and earlier this year, President. He came to power as a blank slate, and in the 100 days that he has held both posts, the nature of his leadership has become an increasingly heated topic of debate. Many see Hu's actions over the past three months as cause for hope that he's a reformer likely to initiate large-scale change. Optimists point to his decree that the SARS crisis be handled openly, and to the government's steps to overhaul its notoriously brutal...
Luckily for me, there is a whole subculture of TiVo users who squeeze better performance out of their boxes by hacking into them. Two how-to books on the topic will be published in August (TiVo Hacks, O'Reilly; Hacking the TiVo, Premier Press). There's also a step-by-step guide at tivofaq.com/hack Or you can do what I did: install a ready-made upgrade from WeaKnees.com All hacking will, of course, void your warranty. But what you get in return is a supercharged TiVo with three or more times the recording capacity. The larger the hard drive...
...dirty linen in the famously clean waters of Evian last week. They talked about the global economy but not about the falling U.S. dollar; about advancing global free trade but not about cutting agricultural subsidies; about weapons of mass destruction but not - heaven forfend - about Iraq. There was one topic, however, on which Messrs. Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien, Koizumi, Putin and Schröder talked real money: combatting aids in Africa, where it kills some 6,500 people a day, most of them women and children. It should have been the perfect topic for French President Jacques...
...can’t provide details on this matter right now since it remains an open topic of discussion among relevant faculty and administrators,” Hyman wrote in an e-mail...
Genser said he will encourage Yang’s case to be a topic of discussion in high level meetings between the leaders of the United States and the People’s Republic of China...