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The presidential candidates have staked their places on the Web to raise money, to distribute speeches and position papers, and to show off their cybersavvy.
The temporary tax cut, USAT explains, is an about-face for Prime Minister Hashimoto, who had recently staked his political reputation on reducing his country's budget deficit.
On China, Morton Kondracke of The McLaughlin Group staked the center ground as usual.
Critics dump on the gratuitous violence--especially a rape and murder scene involving a naked woman staked to the ground--in this thriller starring John Travolta, James Woods, and Madeleine Stowe.
In Paris, Le Monde said Clinton "staked his all" in his address, challenging the Republicans to work with a president they want to topple, or else enter the November 2000 elections under the banner of an "impeachment party" that abandoned a popular program to satisfy its rancor.