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DARRYL STRAWBERRY SALARY: $3.8 MILLION 1991 Los Angeles Dodgers A big free-agent pickup--but the team blew a division lead to the Atlanta Braves and missed the play-offs...
...week for U.S. troops in Afghanistan: eight soldiers died and three were wounded after a Taliban weapons cache they had discovered exploded outside Ghazni, 60 miles southeast of Kabul. U.S. officials say it's too soon to know why the arsenal blew up, though the Taliban has booby-trapped such caches in the past. But the week's events highlighted an even greater concern: the Taliban may be taking a cue from insurgents in Iraq and embarking on the deadly new tactic of suicide attacks in the country's capital, Kabul...
...some investors and bankers are now focusing on the issue as a result of the recent scandals. While many big investors have been relaxed about companies using offshore holdings to reduce their tax burdens, overuse of havens can raise red flags. Indeed, in December 2002, a year before Parmalat blew up, a Merrill Lynch analyst in London, Joanna Speed, downgraded the company to "sell" from "buy" in part because of its "inefficient, opaque and complex" balance sheet. Shame can be a useful weapon. At a recent hearing by a U.S. Senate committee, senior executives of the accounting firm KPMG were...
...event turned out to be meticulously choreographed to a devious degree. The White House eventually acknowledged that the plentiful platter Bush carried was a table decoration—not for actual consumption. And a thrilling anecdote about a passing pilot who nearly blew Air Force One’s cover—while it posed as a much smaller plane in order to slip through British airspace—was mysteriously unverifiable, if not wholly fabricated...
Cioroch, ranked No. 1 in the country, blew her match against No. 25 Bergman wide open in the first set with a commanding 6-0 victory, immediately sending her Crimson counterpart reeling...