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...Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard. But economists say that when the housing boom finally ends on a broad scale--and that could be a year or more away--most homeowners will see merely stunted appreciation, not declines. "Real estate is the place to be," proclaims Melvin Barney, an attorney from Cleveland...
...pros. It seemed unlikely that anything so complex could be widespread. But with WorldCom, as House Financial Services Committee chairman Mike Oxley, an Ohio Republican, says, it looks like "good old-fashioned fraud." Oxley's committee subpoenaed Sidgmore, Sullivan, Ebbers and Jack Grubman, telecom analyst for the Salomon Smith Barney unit of Citigroup, to a July 8 hearing. Not to be outdone, House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Billy Tauzin, a Louisiana Republican, announced his investigation and ordered that by July 11 WorldCom turn over all records relating to its internal audit and five years' worth of accounting-related documents...
...London-based HIT Entertainment, one of the world's leading children's-TV studios, is expanding his kingdom of toddler favorites. Home to such franchises as Bob the Builder and Barney, HIT has added another creature to its TV menagerie--an animated mouse called Angelina Ballerina. The British-born Lawes, 35, who joined HIT in its infancy in 1989, says his favorite TV character is Bob the Builder, the construction worker who generates 35% of the company's sales. Lawes and his wife are expecting their first child in the fall--at about the same time Barney gets a makeover...
Decker said the people with “real courage” were the members of Congress who voted against the USA PATRIOT Act, including Democratic U.S. House members Michael E. Capuano, Barney Frank ’61-’62, James P. McGovern, John W. Olver and John F. Tierney...
Spitzer is extending the probe. He has subpoenaed from Salomon Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley the annual self-evaluations, in which analysts justify their requests for bonuses. The statements could reveal that analysts' recommendations helped win investment-banking business, a potential conflict of interest. Says Spitzer: "It certainly will be instructive to see what they say about themselves." Count on some more Spitzer headlines before he's done...