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...idea that Ichiro's success could spark interest in baseball and blunt soccer's growing popularity seems logical. But it's scant consolation to those who love the proud history of the Japan League. More Japanese kids will want to play, certainly?just not in Japan...
...company and that shareholders approve all stock-option plans. Henry Paulson, the normally low-profile chairman and CEO of Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs (Tyco's financial adviser), was one of many business leaders ringing the bell for reform. "American business has never been under such scrutiny. To be blunt, much of it is deserved," Paulson said in a speech calling for curbs on when a CEO can profit by selling company stock, among other things...
...real crime, securities lawyers say, is that while the problems were well documented, regulators did nothing until investors had lost billions of dollars. Only since Spitzer's investigation turned up blunt double-dealing by analysts has the SEC intensified its efforts, currently looking at other firms too, like Salomon, where telecom analyst Jack Grubman earned more than $10 million a year reeling in underwriting clients. That princely pay had nothing to do with his stock advice. Grubman rated the disastrous stock WorldCom a strong buy until mid-March, although it was down 88% from its June 1999 peak. Salomon--which...
...authority wielded from the shadows, where he hides from potential assassins. The Potemkin parties were intended to deliver a message to any Iraqi citizen feeling restive, to any foreign government contemplating his overthrow. The all-powerful puppet master can make his whole nation sing his praises as a blunt reminder: I am still here. It won't be easy...
DIED. ALEXANDER LEBED, 52, blunt, charismatic Soviet general instrumental in defending the Russian parliament against a 1991 coup by communist hard-liners; in a helicopter crash in Siberia. When President Gorbachev was taken hostage by hard-liners seeking to overturn his reforms, Lebed, a hero of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, offered what turned out to be critical advice to emerging leader Boris Yeltsin: to forcefully rally the confused Russian troops by declaring himself the military's supreme commander. Though the regional governor's national visibility had waned in recent years, he remained a popular figure...