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...used to it. "I'd be very suspicious," says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "This was a relief rally -- an excuse to bargain-hunt on the good yen news." Psychology, even on hair-triggered Wall Street, can only take the Dow or NASDAQ so far north. "There's a long history of central banks proving themselves unable to force a currency to stay up or down," says Kadlec. "The economic fundamentals always...
...tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip," says John Moscow of the Manhattan district attorney's office. Like all good lawyers, Cacheris knows that in many cases, a deal beats a court fight hands down. Beneficiaries of his bargaining skills include Fawn Hall, the former secretary to Oliver North who won immunity in exchange for testimony, and Ames, who faced a possible death sentence until Cacheris secured a life-in-prison plea bargain. But Cacheris is also a natural in the courtroom, "a maestro," as a fellow lawyer puts...
While Princeton continued to plague the Crimson, history intimated that the two would meet again in the Ivy Championships, and Harvard kept its end of the bargain, blazing through its conference schedule to win 21 of its next...
...technology into your hands, Johnny Chung would not be your first choice for the job--or your second choice or even your third. Yet Chung, the cartoonish Taiwan-born businessman best known for his role in the 1996 Clinton campaign-finance scandals ($366,000 in suspicious contributions; a plea bargain in which he's cooperating with investigators), was being described in Washington last week as the pivot man in a "China Plan" to do just that. For an influence peddler, he employed an unlikely m.o.--a garish, glad-handing personality that repelled those he wanted to seduce, from top White...
Tired of searching all over for an affordable summer plane ticket? Now you can let the airlines do it for you. At priceline.com a popular new website, bargain hunters name their price and wait for carriers to come calling. In the site's first six weeks, 10,000 users have bought tickets. Starting in July, online shoppers can take the same approach to find...