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When CNN anchor Bernard Shaw projected a victory for Arizona Sen. John S. McCain in the state, the crowd booed...
...Even though we're not nearly as dependent on oil today as we were 30 years ago, it still accounts for 40 percent of our energy use, and last year - when prices were depressed - it accounted for some 14 percent of our GDP," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "So the trebling of the oil price could very well act as a brake on economic growth, by slowing down consumption. When the price at the pump climbs to $1.80 or $2 a gallon, that eats into the amount of money households have to spend on other things...
...Serb and Albanian civilians were wounded in a series of grenade attacks, underlines the fact that stability remains elusive even eight months after the NATO-led peacekeepers first arrived. The violence in the city close to the Serbian border came a day after the U.N. administrator for the province, Bernard Kouchner, urged the Security Council to provide more money and to begin a debate over the meaning of the "substantial autonomy" for Kosovo to which the international community is committed. "Kosovo is no longer a part of Yugoslavia even if it remains so legally," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...
...with Amazon.com Accordingly, Sotheby's has taken the greater fall. Its stock, which was at 47 last April, closed last Friday at 19.5, after sinking as low as 14.5 earlier in the week. And its tarnished image prompted rumors that it might be a takeover target for French financier Bernard Arnault, head of the luxury-goods conglomerate LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton. If Arnault acquired Sotheby's, it would afford him yet another confrontation with his archrival, French investor Francois Pinault, who has owned Christie's since...
...scandal shows every sign of spreading. Charges have been leveled that the Rampart division systematically targeted for deportation immigrants who were witnesses to police malfeasance. L.A.P.D. chief Bernard Parks told the city council that investigators will look beyond the allegations at Rampart. One source close to the investigation said it could spill over into at least one nearby division...