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...refusal to submit to inspection - that allowed the Spanish navy, acting on a U.S. intelligence tip, to seize it in international waters in the Arabian sea. Those irregularities, and the fact that its unlisted cargo of 15 SCUD missiles bound for Yemen was hidden under thousands of bags of cement certainly conveys an air of contraband, but Yemen immediately insisted that it had purchased the missiles in an above-board transaction with North Korea, and that such a transaction violated no laws. Washington decided to hand over the missiles because there was no legal basis to hold them, although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCUD Seizure Raises Tricky Questions | 12/11/2002 | See Source »

...latest campaign is to cement the company's new upmarket image by getting Samsung products into more high-end distribution channels. He also wants to shorten the time it takes to get a product onto store shelves once Samsung has spotted a new consumer whim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eric Kim: Global marketing chief of Samsung | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

Once built, the most difficult task was burying it under the sod of Harvard Stadium and concealing it from the vigilant grounds crew. Over the course of eight nighttime visits, complete with lookouts and camouflage, the Dekes were able to run wires underground through a gap in the cement track that once rounded the field, and then into the bowels of the concrete horseshoe where the power supply was located. Given their poor luck with security, the MIT students waited until the week of the game to install the fire extinguisher-size device into the ground and hoped...

Author: By Renzo Weber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Look Back: 1982: MIT Gets In | 11/22/2002 | See Source »

...accountants can only guess that they are worth anywhere from $1 billion to $10 billion. Besides making sense of the books, the Standard & Poor's team is testing them for evidence to support allegations by Palestinian merchants that the Authority controls de facto monopolies in the local flour, cement and tobacco trades. The accountants are looking closely at how the Authority awards contracts and trying to determine whether corruption in licensing, which they say has been rife, continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going After Arafat's Monopoly on Money | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...release of How to Be Cool in 2001 has left them with a better sound than ever. If the nomination for best punk band at the 2002 Boston Music Awards was not enough to make the trio feel cool, certainly the heartfelt and energetic Rejection Builds Character should cement them in the ranks of the more hip and inventive punk-rock bands...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff and Sarah N. Kunz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Music | 10/31/2002 | See Source »

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