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...rates in the areas where they apply. This has led Romano Prodi, the President of the European Union, to complain that as long as the EU does not have a standardized tax policy it will be “like a soldier trying to march with a ball and chain around one leg.” Joschka Fischer, the German Foreign Minister was rather more revealing when he said that the launch of the Euro was “a profoundly political act,” designed to spur Europe on to “put into place the final...
...year to Tanzania. Kilimanjaro is one of the world?s highest readily climbable mountains - all that is required to climb ?Kili,? as it is affectionately known, is a decent level of fitness and an iron will to succeed. Unlike most other tall mountains, Kilimanjaro is not part of a chain. The dormant volcano's massive bulk rises in solitary grace out of the East African savanna, just 200 miles south of the equator. It stands 19,340 feet above sea level, shorter than the towering peaks of the Himalayas or the Andes but high enough to make breathing difficult...
...last summer to conclude there was something rotten at Enron. The numbers didn't add up. A pair of letters that she wrote to Chairman Kenneth Lay exposed top officials--perhaps including Lay himself--who for months had been trying to hide a mountain of debt, and started a chain reaction of events that brought down the company. Watkins' letters, along with thousands of other documents, are now in the hands of congressional and criminal investigators who are probing how Enron, its pet-rock auditors at Andersen and a host of other supporting actors allowed the country's seventh largest...
...they bring. Two weeks ago, he was fined a record $500,000 for claiming he wouldn't hire the league's top ref to "manage a Dairy Queen." The expected media miasma followed, and this time Dairy Queen decided to horn in on the action. With mock indignation, the chain invited Cuban to spend a day dishing ice cream to see just how challenging it could be. So last week, surrounded by television cameras, newspaper photographers, circling helicopters, hordes of fans, the Mavericks' mascot and Tom Arnold (never one to pass up a publicity bid himself), Cuban and Dairy Queen...
...Sunday, the Bush Administration's internal rift over prisoners taken in the war on terrorism stepped right up to the chain-link doors of the cells holding Taliban and Al-Qaeda captives at Guantanamo. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld walked into Camp X-Ray, a detainee who had just finished washing his face wrapped his towel over his hair in the manner of Arab headwear. A U.S. military police guard told him to take it off, worried that weapons - like the rocks Guantanamo brass suspect the detainees may be using to write covert notes of revolt to one another - could...