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...INDICATORS Worth The Weight? After three years, Rupert Murdoch won his battle for DirecTV, filling a final gap in his media empire by gaining a U.S. satellite broadcaster - pending regulatory approval. But investors balked at the $6.6 billion deal, sending News Corp. shares down...
...flame and smoke belched up from what had been a taxicab. With a sickening realization we knew that a suicide bomber had struck. What I didn't know until I got to the scene was that one of the victims was a colleague, Paul Moran of the Australian Broadcasting Corp. He was the first journalist killed in Gulf War II. The most likely suspect: Ansar...
Young Daniel Ellsberg (James Spader) is one of the Rand Corp.'s best and brightest, writing papers for the think tank that advocate brinkmanship and "the political uses of madness" in the cold war. In 1964 his work takes him to the Pentagon, where he sees madness in action. He learns that the entire war policy, in effect, is a mess swept under a carpet of inflated enemy body counts. Asked to help write a history of the war effort, he finds that the U.S. has remained hopelessly entangled because no President wanted to be the first U.S. leader...
...exactly will build it? After 9/11, New York Governor George Pataki formed the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. (LMDC) to oversee restoration of the Trade Center site. But the 15 LMDC board members share power with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency that built the Trade Center and owns the land. The Port Authority in turn must accommodate Larry Silverstein, a New York City developer who signed a 99-year lease on the Trade Center six weeks before the attack. Silverstein is partnered with a retail developer, Westfield America, that is pushing for maximum shopping space...
...person who borrowed becomes more vulnerable and feels less than the person they have borrowed the money from," says Kathleen Gurney, founder and CEO of Financial Psychology Corp., a consulting company based in Sarasota, Fla. "It's not a level playing field anymore." Resentment and guilt can build up, threatening even the deepest of bonds...