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...spare production of eight actors, a piano and a harp ran for 17,162 performances after opening on May 3, 1960. CLOSED. TALK MAGAZINE, brainchild of former New Yorker editor Tina Brown and chronicler of celebrities and popular culture; in New York City. Publishers Miramax Films and Hearst Corp. cited the poor business climate after Sept. 11 as the reason for its demise. RELEASED. WANG CE, 52, democracy advocate, from prison for good behavior; in Zhejiang, China. Head of a group of exiles called the Freedom and Democracy Party, Wang was sentenced in March 1999 to four years after entering...
...gladiators in this war include plenty of familiar names, though their number gets smaller by the year (remember Digital Equipment Corp., or Data General?). At the top of the pile are such titans as Sun Microsystems and IBM; they are in gigabyte-to-gigabyte competition for customers like Citigroup that need the world's most powerful machines and can pay more than $1 million a pop for them. Below Sun and Big Blue are innovators like Hewlett-Packard that develop much of their own technology or firms like Compaq that buy it through acquisitions (as Compaq bought...
...light of the disaster at Enron Corp. and Mr. Winokur’s absolutely central role in it as finance chair, we must ensure that he is not implementing or overseeing irresponsible or fraudulent policies at Harvard, as the Enron board is alleged to have done,” Simmons said...
...unanimous decision, the court said that Toyota Motor Corp. did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act when it fired Ella Williams for poor attendance after Williams' carpal tunnel syndrome kept her from working. Williams' suit against Toyota claimed the company did very little to accommodate her disability - "reasonable accommodations" being a requirement under the ADA. In fact, the Court ruled, Toyota was not required to treat Williams under the guidelines of the ADA, because her condition does not qualify her as disabled. She is, the Court reasoned, still capable of performing "tasks that are of central importance to most...
...someone with the Murdoch pedigree makes an ideal ambassador. Besides, Rupert already had somebody who knew about TV and Asia: himself. "You put someone in charge without any practical experience running a large business and you'd think it would be a prescription for disaster," says a senior News Corp. executive in New York. "But James came in listening very intently to his father...