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...would slash its workforce by 15%, and InterActiveCorp, the U.S. owner of Expedia, announced a 25% drop in second-quarter net profits. Where are travelers booking? Directly with airlines - plus hotel chains like Hilton are increasingly promoting their own sites, says Simon Champion, leisure analyst at Deutsche Bank, leaving online agents with fewer rooms to hawk. Europe's holiday firms must be wondering when they'll get their break. Hallyday In The Sun It's his biggest hit ever: Johnny Hallyday, France's most popular rock star, last week secured ownership of his personal catalog of some 3,500 songs...
...politicians appear to be listening. The White House, which had opposed the creation of the commission out of fear of a politically damaging verdict on its pre-9/11 performance, gingerly welcomed the panel's proposals, then quickly seized the opportunity to champion reform. Bush has asked chief of staff Andrew Card to head a working group to look at how to best assess and carry out the recommendations. The Administration has been cool to the panel's proposal, long debated in intel circles, that a National Intelligence Director (NID) oversee all 15 intelligence agencies, including the CIA, Defense Intelligence...
Europe's most famous soccer teams are having a busy summer wooing fans in that longtime soccer wasteland, the United States. Scottish champion Glasgow Celtic, English powerhouses Manchester United and Chelsea, and Italian champ AC Milan are among nine teams on tour, playing in such cities as Seattle, Cleveland and Philadelphia, often to packed stadiums. For the players, it's a chance for a preseason tune-up in the perfect environment - away from their rabid fans. "The facilities are second to none," says Chelsea Football Club CEO Peter Kenyon. But more important, the big clubs...
...champion of “core values that unite Americans,” Obama possesses a biracial appeal that has been said to have drawn widespread support in the Illinois Democratic primary, in which he garnered 53 percent of the vote in an election with six other candidates...
...million on its racing team this year, compared with $35 million for Minardi, one of the smaller teams. And Schumacher has perhaps the fastest reaction time of any F1 driver. He began developing his skills early, racing go-carts when he was 4 and becoming German national junior champion at 15. When Eddie Jordan, head of the Jordan racing team, offered Schumacher a chance to drive Formula 1 in 1991, Schumacher broke the track record for the Jordan car the first day. Since then he has won 80 of the 206 F1 races he has entered. Britain's David Coulthard...