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...many evaluators award PREP high marks. While two studies did not find it more effective than other methods, two others, involving a total of 210 couples, found that those who take PREP, either before marriage or after, have lower rates of breakup and divorce than couples who took a different training class or did nothing. Also, seven studies involving about 500 couples concluded that PREP participants had less negative communication for up to five years after the course. Men are particularly partial to the method...
DIED. CHARLES BROWN, 82, understated former chairman and CEO of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (AT&T), who headed the company during the historic breakup of Ma Bell; in Richmond, Va. Brown, who spent his entire 40-year career at the company, opposed the breakup. But in 1982 he and his board settled an antitrust suit that split the world's largest company into eight parts--AT&T, with a long-distance and phone-equipment business, and seven Baby Bells...
...Year. Even though auditors later concluded that Sibneft's tax violations were "ethically not very pretty but legal," the impact of a court inquiry, new duties and new tax rules could cost the company more than $650 million next year, and even lead to its breakup. No wonder Abramovich likes London. He had ample reason to think he'd won the Kremlin's favor. In 2001, he bought the ort TV channel for $150 million from Boris Berezovsky, once Putin's ally, then his bitter foe, and turned it over to the state. He also invested several hundred million...
...parliament building. To compound the confusion, another opposition leader, former Speaker Nino Burjanadze, appeared to proclaim herself interim president, thanking the police and military for "keeping out of the fight." The largely autonomous region of Ajaria began urgent consultations with two long-estranged provinces, heightening fears of a breakup of the country. Shevardnadze, meanwhile, rejected pleas - by his own advisers and the U.S. State Department - to resolve the crisis through negotiations. Yet he finally caved in on Sunday afternoon after Saakashvili gave him an ultimatum to go at talks mediated by Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. The key factor...
...gets the flu. But in this particular case, it's impossible not to wonder if something less viral and potentially more serious (at least to her career) is what's bugging Spears in Paris - something that might be more accurately diagnosed as growing pains. After all, ever since her breakup last year with first love Justin Timberlake, and that much- publicized but never-materialized yearlong hiatus she promised to take, there have been plenty of visible symptoms. Like her tear earlier this year through virtually half the nightclubs in New York City (where she couldn't even light...