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...Hong Kong specialty, and many say that this neighborhood stalwart (21 Gough Street) serves up the city's best. Brave the inevitable queues to sample the rich, deeply flavorful beef broth, the firm, springy egg noodles and the deliciously tender, stewed-for-hours brisket, which yields to the gentlest bite...
...colleagues dish out every week on the Sunday-morning political shows, but lately their biggest headache has been one of their own. And while they would dearly love to fire back at Joe Lieberman of Connecticut after his almost weekly bomb-throwings, there is little they can do but bite the insides of their cheeks and bear...
...course, the idea that shoplifting is a victimless crime is easier to believe when the prey involved is a faceless business - or better yet, an international retail chain. In reality, however, shoplifting comes back to bite all consumers in the billfold in the same way that higher plane tickets do when airlines face increasing gas prices. Anytime businesses have to absorb a cost, they pass it along to their clients in some form or another. Retailers make up the money lost to shoplifting by marking up the prices of their goods. According to the Center for Retail Research, this ended...
Those with a sweet tooth have long found it hard to resist a second bite of Cadbury chocolate. Kraft, it seems, is no different. The world's second biggest foodmaker unleashed a hostile bid for the British confectioner on Monday, offering $16.3 billion in cash and shares under the same terms as a friendly approach that was rejected by Cadbury in September. Absent any sweetener, Cadbury's board "emphatically rejected this derisory offer," chairman Roger Carr fired back in a statement. The bid, he said, "does not come remotely close to reflecting the true value of our company." (See nine...
...that politicians are against them or that the political process is a farce. The difference today is that politicians no longer need to broaden their appeal beyond a committed, activist base. And they know more precisely than ever what the base wants. The soapbox, which became the sound bite, thanks to radio and television, has gone interactive. If you say it today, the audience will come to you. "There is an interactive element to this. I spend enough time online to figure out what people are thinking," explains Grayson. "I think what the Internet has done is to make mass...