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...material for that central column, but for the fact Daniel Pearl, whose wife, Marianne, is pregnant with their first child, is being held somewhere in Karachi, Pakistan, with a gun to his head. By kidnappers who do not appear to know what they are doing. Pearl's old boss scoffs at the idea he was working for anybody but his editors - "Of all the reporters who worked in the Washington bureau he had the most jaundiced view of government," Jill Abramson told the New York Times. This is a journalist - a journalist in deep trouble...
...Kronberg household, Michelle writes the checks and Harvey handles the telecommunications. They operate two small home businesses, Kronberg's Flags and Flagpoles and a local newsletter, and though Harvey is his own boss, he has to keep a lot of other people happy--his cell-phone company, his long-distance carrier, another phone company for the fax line at his office and still another for local phone service. The Kronbergs live in Texas, a state that went in for deregulation in a big way, so not only do they have to choose from multiple local phone services, but they also...
Best Buy also heavily promoted online buying with in-store pickup, and the effort paid off, says marketing boss Judge. More people took advantage of the option in the final week before Christmas, Judge notes, "which allowed us to keep selling as other online orders started to drop off." Holiday traffic to BestBuy.com jumped 30% from the previous year (to more than 1 million visitors a day), and total online sales more than doubled, Judge says. In 2000 about 20% of in-store buyers visited the site first, he says. In 2001 that proportion doubled...
...taken money from Enron or its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen. By then the White House seemed cocky. For reasons no one can explain, it went through with its plan to make one of Enron's former lobbyists, former Montana Governor Marc Racicot, the new Republican National Committee boss...
...under way. The F.A. is also expected, along with the Professional Footballers' Association, to review whether the maximum two-week fine in a standard contract should be raised. "It is time for a much tougher approach to the problems which are dragging the game down," says Gordon Taylor, the boss of the footballers' union, the PFA. Terry and Morris aren't expected to return to court until Feb. 20, but football is already on trial...