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...government taken so that the gathering of intelligence and the profitable use of it is assured and routine? With the joint report as a guide, we have analyzed six critical problems with America's intelligence posture and compiled a progress report on what has been done to fix them in the past two years...
That Prince is a lawyer who has functioned as Weill's Mr. Fix-It says a lot about financial institutions these days. Citi is still stinging from a string of ethical lapses related to its financing of Enron and to the tainted stock research of former telecom analyst Jack Grubman that helped feed the stock-market bubble. There's also plenty of skepticism, even inside the firm, that Prince is anything more than a seat warmer to get through this turbulent period. A quiet man and a consummate insider, Prince also faces a personal challenge: he will have to step...
...liposuction hose. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and Sean MacNamara (Dylan Walsh) are wealthy Miami plastic surgeons--the former a seductive bad boy, the latter moral but uptight--and this subtle-as-an-implant drama shies away from neither their work's ethical implications nor its grossness. (Don't fix a snack before watching them carve up a patient's face like a radish rosette.) FX aspires to be the poor man's HBO, and if the bad-cop drama The Shield is its answer to The Sopranos, Nip/Tuck uses a disturbing profession (and stretches basic-cable limits of nudity...
Listwin set out to fix the software, adopted a more conservative revenue model and made lucrative deals with such companies as HP, IBM, Lucent, Siemens and Sprint. In Japan, phone giants KDDI and J-Phone fed the craze for multimedia messaging--sending enhanced cell-phone snapshots to your friends--with Openwave software. Openwave's annual revenue has stabilized at $250 million. The stock is back above $2. Multimedia messaging is just starting to take off in the U.S. and Europe, via Sprint and Nokia. Analysts expect Openwave to be fully profitable in 2004. Perhaps then Listwin can afford to celebrate...
...next. Here in Tacony, however, the details matter because this neighborhood is trying to reclaim its “historic” past-trying to clutch onto its former industrial grandeur. And this legacy remains at the center of Lou’s and others’ plans to fix Tacony...