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...glad they were able to focus on doing their best. Kudos to the Olympians! Dianna Werthmuller Fort Smith, Arkansas, U.S. There has been much criticism of how Greece handled being host of the Summer Games. Media reports before the Games opened made the situation in Athens sound dire. But at a time when the rest of the world was just entering a civilized era, Greeks had already established a rich culture and had accomplished bigger and better things, including the first Olympics. We Greeks are a caring people. The 2004 Games have been a success because Greeks welcomed everyone from...
Corporate mergers in Japan are usually less than scintillating, proceeding as predictably as a Kabuki play. Executives of two companies?one strong, the other in dire financial straits?typically retreat behind closed doors to broker a deal, usually with little input from shareholders but plenty from the government. All too frequently, these secretive, stage-managed bailouts put a priority not on maximizing profits, increasing shareholder value or reforming busted business models but on preserving jobs (especially those of the managers themselves), promoting "stability" and maintaining the status...
There has been a lot of criticism of how Greece handled being host of the Olympic Games. Media reports made the situation in Athens sound dire. But at a time when the rest of the world was entering a civilized era, Greeks had already established a rich culture and accomplished better things, including the first Olympics. We Greeks are a caring people. The 2004 Games will be successful because Greeks welcome everyone from all over the world. Skeptical articles represent only a minority opinion and are not illustrative of the Greek people. GEORGE APOSTOLOPOULOS West Vancouver...
...anchorman of Will Ferrell's recent film who would read anything that appeared on his TelePrompTer? Did Kerry not remember what he had said to Stephanopoulos? No, it was, apparently, yet another Kerry nanonuance: he is in favor of redeployments, just not now. The second question is far more dire: Why is Kerry wasting breath on such periphera? Why isn't he hammering Bush on his conduct of the Iraq war and the larger war against Islamist radicalism, which is the most important issue in this election...
...cusses him out: "Having passed all her existence among sailors she knew a great many insults and bestowed them very readily on anyone who came near her in a voice that sounded like the creaking of masts and timbers in a high wind." The greater the spell, the more dire the consequences. When Norrell attempts to bring a friend's wife back from the dead, he plants a seed whose dark tendrils entwine the entire novel...