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Many messages reflected current world issues, with calls for disarmament, peace and an end to the global AIDS epidemic, while others noted continuing racial inequality in America amid controversies over affirmative action in education and Sen. Trent Lott’s past support of segregation...
...record. Subsequently, powerful Michigan Democrat John Dingell raised concerns that the LES plant in Louisiana might violate provisions governing the movement of classified technology from foreign countries under the federal Atomic Energy Act. That issue was never resolved, but LES gave up attempts to build the Louisiana facility amid controversy over its impact on nearby African-American residents...
...been for much of his 30-year career at IBM. He can seem quite a contrast to his predecessor as CEO, Lou Gerstner, a notoriously gruff, prickly outsider responsible for one of the greatest turnarounds in corporate history. But nearly a year after taking over the reins amid a lingering slump in corporate spending on technology, Palmisano, 51, has shown that he has sharp teeth behind that smile...
Palmisano's optimism might seem forced amid the wreckage left behind by the tech bust, with cash-strapped companies wary of spending on technology that often doesn't live up to expectations. Such skepticism is one of the principal reasons that IBM's 2002 earnings, which will be announced this week, are expected to drop more than 10%, a reversal from the solid, double-digit annual earnings growth that Gerstner consistently achieved--and that Palmisano is promising for 2003. That pledge will be all the harder to keep at a time when Wall Street is taking a much closer look...
...seven North Africans arrested after the ricin raid - most of whom were identified as Algerians by French investigators - also appeared in court last week, charged with terrorism offenses and chemical-weapons production. And three other Algerians made court appearances on terrorism charges as well, after being arrested in November amid media reports they were planning a poison-gas attack on the London Undergound - claims the British government denies. None of these men has been convicted. If they are, British authorities will have unraveled an Algerian terror network whose presence in the country had until now gone largely undetected. Possible links...