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...self-restraint, Latin brio vs. California cool. Their collision seemed inevitable; yet what ensued was less a crash than a hug. The two men cheered each other on, praised each other's skills, slapped hands, dissipated the heat. They became allies in this drama, united against the two-digit foe that lay blandly impassive in the record books...
...rate cuts, the Federal Reserve took an expected pass on Tuesday, courtesy of the American consumer. Emboldened by their ever-fattening stock portfolios, consumers have not only carried their economy through a tenuous autumn, they have actually set off some alarms in the Fed's head about an old foe: inflation...
This vision is embraced by the individual investors (many of them trading online) who have driven Amazon's stock beyond any established benchmark of price-to-revenues. But many analysts and institutional investors view the stock as overpriced and believe the company faces a tangle of challenges. Its principal foe, Barnes & Noble, recently purchased the Ingram Book Group, the largest U.S. wholesaler to book retailers, including Amazon. This follows Barnes & Noble's sale of 50% of its website operations to giant publisher Bertelsmann AG, creating a potent synergy. Meanwhile, nine other major Web retailers, including CDnow and eToys, recently banded...
...military has finally got it right, let's not be too quick to tamper with success. Though some post-cold war cutbacks are inevitable and necessary, history shows that in the end it is always less costly to our sons and daughters in uniform when we can meet any foe with overwhelming superiority from the very outset. JERRY KOCH Studio City, Calif...
WASHINGTON: See Microsoft try to spin itself out of a tight corner! Watch the software giant's No. 1 foe, Netscape supremo Jim Barksdale, detail with relish what he'd like to see the government do with Redmond! These and other gaudy attractions were on display at the Capitol's most popular courthouse Tuesday, as the antitrust trial of the future entered its second heart-stopping day. After the Justice Department pulled a courtroom coup with a withering display of what appeared to be perjurious statements from Bill Gates, Microsoft's lawyers had to backpedal hard in their own opening...