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...Furthermore, a few naming-rights deals for facilities are up in the air. New football stadiums will open next season in Dallas and at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, where the New York Giants and Jets play. Will companies pay the same sweet premium they would have, say, a year ago for the right to attach their name to one of these new venues? Very doubtful. AIG, the embattled insurance giant, has sponsored the U.S. Davis Cup team since 1999, an agreement that ends this year: if the company hadn't floundered, odds are it would have renewed the deal...
...fifth and latest Dr. Siri mystery, Curse of the Pogo Stick, is set in 1976, shortly after the communist takeover of Laos, and revolution is still very much in the air. The doctor, a former Pathet Lao guerilla who happens to have studied medicine in Paris, has been pressed, with much grumbling, into service as a coroner. Politics rudely intrudes when a body arrives in his morgue booby-trapped with a live grenade. Dr. Siri soon finds himself untangling a mystery involving Hmong insurgents, a possible demonic possession, and a plot by a female terrorist known as the Lizard...
...would anyone show up at the airport counter after their flight had already been canceled? (The couple say they tried rebooking tickets on the phone with an Air Tahiti Nui rep, but were punted back to American...
...Air Tahiti Nui says it cannot reimburse passengers for lost time, hotel and other expenses due to delays, but Panza did offer the aggrieved couple $200 cash, plus $500 in travel vouchers. The newlyweds accepted the compensation, but their nightmare experience won't soon be forgotten. Ah, well. Hope that new gravy boat eases the pain...
...same, U.S. officials privately say that air strikes into Pakistan will continue, as will "hot pursuits" across the border, when appropriate. After all, The Bajaur operation is a long way from over, and there is still no guarantee that it won't end in the kind of messy compromise that has marked previous actions. The offensive has already forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes; 20,000 families have fled across the border into Afghanistan to avoid the fighting, taking their stories and grievances with them. If history is any judge, a new generation of militants - as anti-Pakistani...