Westinghouse backs First Steps program in SC
Westinghouse adds 400000 to its initial pledge to Gov. Hodges First Steps, supporting school readiness in South Carolina. The program, modeled after North Carolina’s effort, aims to prep children for first grade, with local boards and private support from Bank of America and Wachovia. Ambrose Schwalle called education the company’s top priority and praised the initiative.
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Westinghouse
South Carolina
Jim Hodges
Aiken County
Hodges
North
Carlina
S.C
Bank of America and
Wachovia
Great hypocrites At Sydney next September world decathlon title
The Miami Herald denounces the IOC as the true source of hypocrisy. It contrasts the celebrated decathlon winner with the IOC, accusing decades of misconduct including bribery and nepotism. The Salt Lake City 2002 bid is cited as an initial scandal, with calls for reform only after leadership changes.
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Sydney
International Olympic Committee
IOC
Salt Lake City
Samaranch
Dignity and the coming fight over rights and technology
A reflective essay argues dignity will guide future prosperity and policy, despite pressures from doomsayers, faith debates, and government overreach. It links rising biotechnology and civil rights to the need for protecting individual worth and rights, warning of past tyrannies if rights are neglected.
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Washington
Department of Motor Vehicles
Hollywood
Darwin
Marx
Lenin
Aimee Semple McPherson
Jim Bakker
Jimmy Swaggart
Justice Department
IRS
They’ve Got Your Number Online And In Stores
The author details how online and offline retail track consumer habits from purchases and ZIP codes to aesthetics and lifestyle. Personal data gathered by retailers like Burpee shapes targeted catalogs, revealing tastes in books, interiors, and gardening gear, while highlighting privacy tradeoffs and the comfort of better service versus exposure.
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Agatha Christie
Dorothy Sayers
Arthur Conan Doyle
Martha Stewart
Warminster
W. Atlee Burpee Co
Burpee
Nostalgia for Cold War balance shapes US Russia view
The columnist recalls a safer world during Cold War tensions when mutual assured destruction kept superpowers in check. He contrasts 1999 US NATO bombings in Yugoslavia with Boris Yeltsin's warnings, noting a shift to unilateral power and the risks of adventurous meddling. He argues nostalgia for stalemate but rejects a return to nuclear brinkmanship.
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Soviet Union
United States
Brezhnev
Kremlin
Khrushchev
NATO
Yugoslavia
Boris Yeltsin
Yeltsin
Clinton
Russia
Chechnya
Ft Worth
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Scott B. Hunter
Angela R. Nall
Aattor
Jeffrey B. Wallace
Tony Snow
Harrop
Knight Ridder
Bill Thompson
Knight-Ridder Service
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