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...television shows and was given his own newspaper column. Obara's arrest prompted a deluge of phone calls to the British embassy from Japanese who wanted to express their shame. But at the same time, hostesses in Roppongi report a rash of male customers introducing themselves as "Joji Obara." Amelia, one of the young women working at Lucie's old club, says a customer told her recently: "'I know a girl like you would never sleep with me. The only way I could get you would be to drug...
...competition consisted of nine programing challenges, ranging from the practical problems of "von Neuman Airport's" traffic-load, to the fictitious quandaries of a troubled cheese mite named "Amelia Cheese Mite...
Programs like Investigator have the law on their side, explains Amelia Boss, chairwoman of the American Bar Association's business law section. Employers are free to monitor an employee's use of their networks so long as they don't violate labor and antidiscrimination laws--by targeting union organizers, for example, or minorities. Existing constitutional, statutory and common-law doctrines have not been interpreted to cover employee monitoring. Some union contracts limit an employer's ability to monitor during downtime like lunch hours, but they typically don't bar monitoring altogether. And while federal law prohibits wiretapping and the monitoring...
...handy time saver for next week: skip just about all the post-Iowa analysis. If history is any guide, almost all of it will be wrong. For instance, if somebody says "the road to the White House leads through Des Moines," ask him if he's using Amelia Earhart's map. Yes, Jimmy Carter used Iowa in 1976 to show he was a serious contender, but that's about it. More often than not, Iowa fades into insignificance by the time New Hampshire votes. Wait a minute, you say. Wouldn't big Iowa victories provide momentum for front runners George...
...risk; it may be our predominant national characteristic. It's a country founded by risk takers fed up with the English Crown and expanded by pioneers--a word that seems utterly American. Our heritage throws up heroes--Lewis and Clark, Thomas Edison, Frederick Douglass, Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart--who bucked the odds, taking perilous chances...