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...scholars whose efforts to understand the turmoil of the 20th century widely influenced modern thought. After spending World War II as a BBC correspondent, Bullock produced his Hitler biography from a detailed review of the minutes of the Nuremberg trials. He was modest about his talents. "I couldn't write great literature," he said, "but I could do a workmanlike job as a historian...
Without copyrights the GPL would not work because any company could hijack the code (like Microsoft), extend it with proprietary code and release it as a binary only without giving others the opportunity to change the code. Eventually such a fork might discourage open source developers to write new code and the code would no longer be freely available after a short while...
Kerry aced the test and pulled ahead, thanks also in part to some last-minute sweetening of his record by the Kennedy shop. Kennedy's staff worked closely with Kerry to write a bill extending children's health coverage, paid for by a cigarette tax. That not only gave Kerry a consumer-friendly piece of legislation to run on but also reminded voters that Weld had blocked such a plan in Massachusetts. Kerry ended up winning by more than 7 percentage points...
...round of finger pointing between the CIA and the White House about who ginned up the weapons that apparently never existed--and why. They put new pressure on Tenet, who has survived in his post longer than many might have imagined and may no longer be able to write his own exit lines. And they revived plans, long abandoned, of a badly needed reform of the nation's numerous, mysterious, overlapping and often quarrelsome intelligence agencies. Bush had shelved the idea of a massive, one-time overhaul after 9/11, lest the undertaking distract the nation's spooks from their...
...advertising and promotion," he says--and agree that she could limit her number of publicity obligations. Then Jones, who lives on Manhattan's West Side, insulated herself with the near constant presence of her band, which includes her boyfriend of four years, bassist Lee Alexander. "I really wanted to write more songs for this record"--she wrote just two on the first--"and I wanted to write songs with them," says Jones. "Lee and I write very well together, but I write well with everybody else [in the band] too. We're comfortable with each other. There's no pressure...