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Bethune knows he has to chart his course carefully or risk going hat in hand to Washington for a taxpayer-backed bailout. He's already unpopular for leading the charge on Congress to grant a $15 billion aid package for the industry the first week after the attacks. "I ain't running for election here, pal," he says. "If we had waited another week to publicly acknowledge where we were, we'd still be arguing about it, and a bunch of us would be bankrupt...
...Blues UBS Warburg will cut 10% of its London investment bankers because of the industry-wide downturn in trading. This is only the latest round of cuts to hit the financial sector, which lost about 25,000 staff last year. INDICATORS Breaking Windows' Hold Dell Computer, Oracle, and Red Hat are teaming up to sell computers running Linux, the free "open source" operating system. The announcement came just days after IBM struck a deal to provide Linux machines to the German government. Achtung, Windows. Bringing It Back Home China's Finance Minister says foreign companies enjoying a 15% tax rate...
...been weighed in three hours earlier in a separate event. Boxing promoters may like the hype, but even they are not taking chances before the opening bell. They learned their lesson at the fracas-cum-pre-fight press conference last January when an enraged Tyson suddenly threw down his hat and, during the ensuing melee, bit Lewis in the thigh. After that, everyone agreed the two men should be kept apart until they crawl into the padded ring at The Pyramid, the 10-year-old downtown arena normally reserved for the city's new professional basketball team...
...Bears gave the Crimson everything it could handle and added to the drama by forcing two overtimes. But Harvard sophomore Jen Brooks recorded her second hat trick of the season, scoring once in each of the extra frames to give her team a 12-11 victory...
Brooks had the hot hand once again in the ECAC title game, as she notched a hat trick for the second consecutive game while her classmate, goaltender Laura Mancini, capped off a stellar spring by making a career-high 15 saves...