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...Mart's expansion has gone well in Mexico, where it is the country's largest retailer. And the company just completed a deal to crack the Japanese market by acquiring 34% of Seiyu, a well-positioned but struggling retailer. But Wal-Mart has stumbled badly in some countries, particularly Germany. "We could write a training manual about our experiences in Germany," Scott says. "We really did more things wrong than right." There, Wal-Mart faces tough competition from well-established chains, especially among grocers. The German managers Wal-Mart brought on board through two mergers resisted American help...
MEANWHILE Hacker Victory In an embarrassment to the Hollywood studios that brought the case against him, Norwegian teenager Jon Johanssen was acquitted of digital piracy by an Oslo court. Johanssen had developed a program to crack the codes on DVDs that prevent unauthorized copying and posted it on the Internet. The court ruled that he had only used the program to view DVDs he legally owned, and there was no evidence anyone else had used it illegally...
...relief (not to mention, and Bush will, the immediate dropping of the 15 percent tax bracket to 10 percent) offer something for every hard-working middle-class family of swing voters. And the elimination of the "double" tax on dividends, while hardly the panacea the White House likes to crack it up to be, is economically benign and aesthetically satisfying, at the very least...
...stop at a café to indulge my addiction, with the knowledge that my purchase is not helping the poor starving coffee farmers of the world. The “Fair Trade” seal is rarely on the pot or bag that I buy, and at the crack of dawn when I’ve just awoken or have yet to sleep, my yen for a good brew is much stronger than my remorse for Guatemala. It is the typical American consumer conundrum: what matters for me right now, versus what matters for everyone else in the world whom...
Dartmouth gets a second crack at Harvard this weekend when the Crimson hosts its home Ivy opener. One goal will be to better contain standout forward Katherine Hanks, who tallied 19 points for the Big Green...