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ome of the leading state attorneys general in the Microsoft (news/quote) antitrust case said yesterday that they would press for tough sanctions against the software maker, including ones that apply to the company's new operating system, Windows XP. The states also served notice that they were willing to break with the Bush administration and pursue Microsoft on their own if they think the steps the Justice Department is to suggest do not go far enough to foster competition in the software industry. "We are there, and we have our own expertise," said Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New ...

<p>Central Command, an antiviral software firm, has analyzed the new worm and located the DoS attack code.</p> <p>We are monitoring systems for Code Blue but at this time, we have yet to see any Code Blue-like activity here at Central Command," Vice President Steven Sundermeier said. "The worm so far seems to be limited to China."</p>

A fierce confirmation battle started in the Democrat-controlled Senate last week when President Bush officially nominated Otto J. Reich as assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs. Reich, who fled Cuba with his parents in 1960, previously served in the Reagan State Department and as ambassador to Venezuela. His Democratic opponents, obviously trying to re-fight a battle they lost 15 years ago, have criticized him for his efforts in opposing the spread of Soviet-backed communism in Latin America during the closing days of the Cold War. Recalling that Reich&#146;s job in the State Department was to generate public support ...

PRINCETON, NJ -- A recent Gallup poll shows that more than eight in 10 American workers are satisfied with their current jobs, including 41% who say they are "completely satisfied." When asked to rate their satisfaction with several aspects of their jobs, workers are most satisfied with the physical safety of their workplaces and their relations with co-workers. On-the-job stress and pay are the two aspects with which Americans are least satisfied. The poll, conducted August 16-19, assessed workers’ satisfaction with 17 different aspects of their jobs. More than six in 10 workers say they are "completely satisfied" with ...

OS ANGELES, Sept. 7 — Richard J. Riordan, 71, the former mayor of Los Angeles and a likely Republican candidate for governor next year, disclosed on Thursday that he underwent secret treatment for prostate cancer last year as mayor. But he said that the treatment, 44 radiation sessions, was successful and that he was healthy enough to run for office should he choose. Mr. Riordan, along with his doctors, said the cancer was discovered at an early stage last October during a routine examination and that he received radiation treatments from February until May. They said no evidence of ...

HotlineScoop.com | Friday, September 7, 2001 Al Sharpton Is An Art Form By Howard Mortman et's take Al Sharpton's presidential run seriously. For the moment, let's suspend the jokes, the suspicions and the inclination to label the Al Sharpton for President Exploratory Committee as just another publicity stunt. It's a good time to ask why the mainstream media is giving him a pass at one of the biggest taboos of public life: mixing politics with religion. Is there a precedent for his doomed bid for president? His candidacy has been compared to Jesse Jackson's. And on CNN's "Crossfire," Sharpton ...

The NOW Leadership Misses (Again) Last June 20, Andrea Yates calmly summoned police to her home where she had drowned her five children in a bathtub, one by one. She had chased and caught her oldest, a 7-year-old boy, when he tried to flee. Her relatives said she had been "depressed". With little knowledge of Yates' life and medical history, NOW leaders rushed to side with Yates because they said they "felt" that only an insane woman could commit such crimes, and that the murders also proved that women in America were "imprisoned at home with their children". A resolution ...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Music and record industry lobbyists are quietly readying an all-out assault on Congress this fall in hopes of dramatically rewriting copyright laws.</p> <p>With the help of Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.), the powerful chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, they hope to embed copy-protection controls in nearly all consumer electronic devices and PCs. All types of digital content, including music, video and e-books, are covered.</p>

Freshman Rep. Rob Simmons (R-Conn.), a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, may have retired from the spy business years ago, but it seems he can’t escape from the cloak-and-dagger games of partisan politics. During the August recess, Simmons’ office received a request for the congressman’s schedule from a woman who identified herself as a Sierra Club staff member. However, Simmons’ staff discovered that neither the Sierra Club’s national headquarters nor its state chapter had any knowledge of a person by that name. Simmons’ aides also discovered that their boss was one of the targets of an effort ...

His aides are denying it and he’ll no doubt deny it as well, but Sen. Zell Miller has again stirred the embers of rumors that he could become the Senate’s Democratic counterpart to Republican party-switcher Jim Jeffords of Vermont. Miller launched a stinging broadside against Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe in a letter to the editor of The Washington Post last week, warning that his criticism of President Bush’s tax cut is hurting the 18 moderate Democratic senators who voted for it, including nine who are up for reelection next year. At the same time, Miller raised the ...

LOS ANGELES — Glitz, glamour and greatness. Hollywood at its finest. But a darkness has crept into the world of the silver screen, and there is a renewed searching among the Hollywood crowd for something to fill the void in their lives. More than that, filmmakers are getting the general idea that the rest of America is searching for something spiritual, too. In their quest to fill the need for the spiritual, Hollywood often just serves up spirits. "When people talk about Hollywood, they're talking about a state of mind," said author and talk show host Michael Medved. "Hollywood ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2001 AP (CBS) In her latest Political Points commentary, CBS News Senior Political Editor Dotty Lynch takes a look at some of the fall political season's biggest races. Most of the political headlines this week have been about candidates dropping in and out of races for Senate and governor next year &#150; Jesse Helms and Phil Gramm out, Janet Reno in and Elizabeth Dole getting close. But 2001 is a hotbed of political activity. Over 450 cities will elect new mayors, New Jersey and Virginia have gubernatorial races and there are five special congressional elections to ...

hen Jean-Claude Baker, the owner of Chez Josephine, got the letter, he was, he said, "devastated." It was a restaurateur's nightmare: a patron celebrating his wedding anniversary — a Columbia professor no less — said he had been sickened. "Extended nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal cramps all pointed to one thing: food poisoning," the letter said. "Our special romantic evening became reduced to my wife watching me curl up in a fetal position on the tiled floor of our bathroom between rounds of throwing up," the letter, on Columbia Business School stationery from Frank Flynn, professor of organizational behavior, ...

Afghans Might Hang Christian Aid Workers NewsMax.com WiresThursday, Sept. 6, 2001 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Eight Western aid workers charged with spreading Christianity in Afghanistan might be sentenced to death, an official said Wednesday. Reports emerged of a Taliban offer to exchange the detainees for an unspecified number of Muslim terrorists and other militants imprisoned around the world. &quot;We will punish them according to law,&quot; said Taliban Chief Justice Maulawi Noor Mohammad Saqib. &quot;If they are found guilty, they will be hanged.&quot; The accused would be allowed to have foreign, non-Muslim lawyers, Saqib said. The eight Westerners, including four Germans, ...

Mugabe builds £6m 'pauper's palace' The Sunday Times (UK) April 01, 2001 Building up a pile: the cost of Mugabe's mansion in Harare raises questions over how a man on a salary of £15,000 has amassed such a fortune Harare - Undeterred by mounting criticism of his autocratic rule, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is building a huge mansion, estimated to be worth nearly £6m, on an annual salary, including perks of office, of only £15,454. The construction of the house, which according to one surveyor covers more than 10,000 square metres, raises questions about how he has managed ...

WASHINGTON - In 1926, peasant Catholics, some of them priests, took up arms against the Marxist-dominated government of Mexico. Trains were blown up. Government schools were attacked and burned, and teachers were killed. It was known as the Christero War. The government retaliated and tried to kill a priest for every teacher killed, finally driving the battlers south into the mountains and suppressing the revolution. Along with executions and imprisonments, the government quietly forced many peasants in this rural revolution north into the United States, beginning a process that, until President Vicente Fox took office nine months ago, was the ...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Despite White House and congressional vows not to touch the Social Security surplus, budget projections now show the federal government may have to do just that -- to the tune of at least $10 billion, CNN has learned.</p>

OUSTON, Sept. 7 — She picked at her head until she scratched bald spots on her scalp. Her blackest depressions left her mute and catatonic, unable to recognize any semblance of hope. She tried to commit suicide in June 1999 and berated herself for failing. She thought, as a nurse, she should at least know how to kill herself. And barely a month after that first suicide attempt, Andrea Yates tried to slash her own throat before her husband grabbed the knife. Later, she admitted: "I had a fear I would hurt somebody. I thought it better to end ...

Lessons learned from past NASA gaffs are not being taught agency-wide, exposing it to the potential of similar mistakes, says an interim government report released Thursday. The 18-page report included a survey of 192 program and project managers in each of NASA's key enterprise areas, covering 244 programs and or projects. It reveals an agency with serious communication problems - so serious that many managers did not even know a "lessons learned" process exists within NASA. And it shows how little information is shared across programs. "The staff does not feel that the process works," said Allen Li, a General ...

<p>JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR: A lot of speculation in the media today that Gary Condit may have made a decision about his political future. Word spread earlier in the day that Condit would not seek reelection next year. But just a little while ago, the congressman's office released a statement. CNN national correspondent Bob Franken joins us now with the full report. Bob, what did you find?</p>