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...forced to resign as honorary chairman of the opposition Christian Democratic Union, his reputation soiled by a spreading financial scandal. In the end the statesman who counted Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev among his peers was brought down by the likes of a French wheeler-dealer nicknamed Dede the Sardine...
Electronics dealer Crutchfield.com isn't the only e-tailer that e-mails customers to confirm that an order has been received, and e-mails again when the shipment has left the warehouse. But the company is one of the savvy few that post whether a given item is in stock (a more helpful variation of Amazon's "usually ships within 24 hours"). Many consumers Gomez surveyed said they wished more sites tracked inventory in real time, Frankle notes...
Given that Whitesell previously worked with a rare-books dealer, he knew that libraries tend to buy books in batches, making the single book even "more intriguing...
...Using Hollis, I found all the books on the dealer's list of 180 that were bought by Harvard," Whitesell said. "It was a lot of detective work...
...honorary chairman of Christian Democratic Union Tuesday, after refusing the party leadership's request that he reveal the identities of a number of secret political donors from whom he received illegal campaign contributions from 1989 to 1996. So far only one of those donors has stepped forward, an arms dealer based in Canada. "The country has been electrified by revelations that Kohl blithely disregarded the stringent campaign finance laws passed by his own government," says TIME Berlin bureau chief Charles Wallace. "The whole notion of German politics being quiet and sober has been blown out of the water. The effect...