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Top Internet services provider America Online Inc. will buy Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media and entertainment company, for about $166 billion in stock, the companies said, in what ranks as the largest corporate merger deal ever.

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Thirteen people suspected of conspiring with indicted terrorist Osama bin Laden to plan attacks on Americans were arrested in Jordan, U.S. officials announced today.

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A comprehensive survey shows lingering offensive behavior and discrimination of different races and ethnic groups in the military.

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The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said today he deeply regrets inaccurate information that has been reported by the press and that some of it was "flat wrong."…

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Although a series of brutal conflicts have been waged between Hutus and Tutsis, including the genocidal war in Rwanda, distinctions between the two groups are less than clear.

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Seven people were killed Wednesday night when a 47-year-old Texas man opened fire during a prayer service for teen-agers at the Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft violated federal antitrust laws by using its power to stifle competition and hurt consumers.

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Talks between the Department of Justice and Microsoft broke down over the weekend. The following is a statement released April 1 by U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Richard Posner in Chicago, the talks' mediator.

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The Internet has been much maligned as a purveyor of pornography and much hyped as the future of business, work, travel and leisure, but one organization is on the ground trying to use new technologies for something concrete: a healing…

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Ken Auletta has written the "Annals of Communications" column for The New Yorker since October, 1992.

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