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Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics Warren Goldfarb asked Summers about his position on the Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC...
...Bangkok. King Bhumibol, on the throne since 1946, is the world's longest reigning monarch. FIRED. RUSSELL MILLS, 57, publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, for publishing articles critical of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien and calling for his resignation; in Ottawa. Mills was canned by the CanWest Global Communications Corp., headed by the Asper family, which has donated $161,000 to Chr?tien's party in the past five years. To protest, Ottawa Citizen journalists refused bylines for five days...
...warning signs are already there. One of Mokhtar's companies is now completing the takeover of Malaysia Electric Corp., a Mahathir-initiated venture that aims to manufacture electrical goods such as air conditioners and stereos in Malaysia for sale domestically and overseas. It has struggled since its inception four years ago. Mokhtar may also be taking over another pair of gasping Mahathir favorites: the Entertainment-Village, through which local multimedia and film industries would "leapfrog into the digital age"; and Bio-valley, a still vague attempt to spark off a Malaysian biotechnology industry. Both E-village and Bio-valley...
...good news for travelers is that the market is still attracting providers and investors. In April Cendant Corp. folded Cheaptickets.com into Trip.com and relaunched the new site with a $40 million ad campaign. Trip.com joins established sites like Travelocity (which has a distribution deal with AOL) and Expedia (built by Microsoft and recently sold to USA Network...
...Minnesota attorney Jeffrey Anderson sued the diocese in Stockton, Calif., on behalf of two brothers who had been sexually abused. Anderson discovered--in the middle of the trial, when he happened to rephrase a question posed to the diocese comptroller--that the diocese operated the separate Roman Catholic Welfare Corp., worth an estimated $400 million. But it was too late to add another defendant to the suit and too expensive to start a new trial. A jury awarded $29 million to Anderson's clients, but the diocese, pleading poverty, managed to have the judgment reduced to $7.6 million. Anderson says...