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...Sasha had an off night and slipped behind Sarah, fair enough. Then Kwan came a-cropper. Now there was one left, or so I figured...
Some of these schemes have already come a cropper. LobbyForMe.com sought to market the lobbying skills of 12 former House members to ordinary folk. For a small fee, these big hitters would contact your member of Congress for you. Now founder Ron Gunzburger is redesigning the page to sell ads to interest groups. And if that doesn't work, well, LobbyForMe.com also owns Politics1.com which publishes an online newsletter and provides profiles of the candidates in virtually every race...
...should be surprised that Rambouillet came a cropper. NATO's fragile construct was designed to avoid answering the question at the heart of this Balkan war: Should Kosovo be an independent state? "The beauty of the interim accord is that no one has to give up their dreams," explains U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill. "We've created this gray thing that one side will call an elephant and the other will call a mouse." Trouble is, some members of the Albanian delegation saw through that and demanded a written guarantee of eventual independence. No way, said NATO. "Sure, they...
...including Shareef. He was an intelligent child. The family was poor, but he seemed like he was headed places. He won his school's Martin Luther King award for an essay on "How Technology Has Progressed." "He was a positive role model here," says Shareef's half-brother Ellis Cropper, with whom he lived for a time. "He got A's and B's, played varsity football and served as an usher in church...He wanted to be an accountant so he could manage the money he was going to make as an athlete...
Zoom forward to last week, when Fisher's strategy seemed to be coming a cropper--to say nothing of being in need of cropping. With the company's new computerized camera systems running up hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, and its mainstay 35-mm color film under attack from lower-priced Fuji Photo Film in the U.S. and a strong dollar abroad, Kodak said its 1997 operating earnings could fall as much as 25% below the results for last year. That marked the third distress flag on Kodak earnings this year and caused the company's stock...