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...which free traders respond: Don't bother. If a Chinese company wants to pay a hefty premium to (mostly) U.S. shareholders, and guarantee the bulk of Unocal'S jobs to boot, why should those shareholders be prevented from selling? After all, Japan 15 years ago wasn't exactly an open economy when its flagship companies began buying everything from Rockefeller Center to Hollywood movie studios. The Japanese, it turned out, got taken like tourists. --Reported by Eric Roston/Washington
...military command, however, has been a good deal less enthusiastic about this new breed of warrior. Special Forces are often regarded by the brass as unworthy of precious defense dollars and a bit too independent to boot. Disclosures last November that members of the supersecret Delta Force had been charged with skimming covert intelligence funds only heightened Pentagon suspicions that the Special Forces are a bunch of freebooters. Shrugged retired Army Brigadier General Donald Blackburn, an expert on unconventional warfare: "Special Forces have always been the bastards of the Army...
...COWBOY BOOT -- After evading police in West Hollywood, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon for kicking a deputy with a pointy-toed clodhopper...
Answers: Cell phone, F; table lamp, E; golf club, A; cowboy boot, C; ice chips, B; microphone stand...
...Introduced to each other by Ms. Cowman’s roommate, Sarah M. Poage ’05, who went to high school with Mr. Schetter in San Diego, Calif., the two hit it off and kept in touch over the next year while Mr. Schetter was in boot camp in South Carolina. The following Valentine’s Day, they met again and decided to begin dating long-distance...