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...joint venture formed in 1999 with the Netherlands' Royal Philips Electronics, became the world's biggest maker of the lcd panels used in flat-screen TVs and monitors in 2003, with 22% of the global market. A good chunk of those are sold in Europe. According to the Austin, Texas-based market research firm DisplaySearch, about 40% of all lcd monitors and 30% of all lcd TVs are sold in Europe; this year LG expects to sell about $5 billion worth of goods there. Small wonder, then, that the LG.Philips unit's operating profit soared 307% last year...
...guys figure it out as they go along makes for nonstop comedy. They flood their engines, shoot themselves, crash their cars and steal sacks of mail instead of money. Once, John Dillinger discovered that his wheelman had parallel parked the getaway car; he had to make an Austin Powers--style multipoint turn before he could peel out. The G-men weren't much better. The FBI was staffed by bumbling college kids and led by a raccoon-eyed, sexually ambiguous desk jockey named J. Edgar Hoover, who at the time had never even made an arrest. But celebrity gangsters create...
...Bell--who lost his seat in a primary last March in a district that had been redrawn by a Republican redistricting plan DeLay helped engineer--charges that one of DeLay's political-action committees illegally funneled corporate money into the 2002 Texas state house races, an allegation that an Austin grand jury is investigating. Bell also accuses DeLay of putting a special provision into a House energy bill for a Kansas utility company in exchange for a $25,000 contribution to that PAC. DeLay insisted "there is no substance" to the charges and dismissed Bell as "a disgruntled member...
...Chinese hunters for months, attracted hordes of media and fans, and was voted the city's Personality of the Year for 2003. The reptile was finally caught with a simple snare and the help of a local fisherman, and will eventually be moved to a nature park. -By Austin Ramzy and Jeff Plunkett...
...Crimson was led by Stinetorf (11th place in foil), Austin (21st in epee), McGlade (13th in epee) and senior Eunice Yi (23rd in saber) at the NCAA Championships at Brandeis. Harvard’s underclassmen will try next year to improve on their school-best eighth-place performance at the NCAAs next year...