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POLITICS HENDRIK HERTZBERG...
...beef up its original bid to compete with E.ON's all-cash offer - the German group may switch its attention instead to the British market. That's in part thanks to a U.K. government that's "pretty relaxed" about letting power providers join up with foreign suitors, says Hendrik Van Brevoort, a utilities analyst with Putnam Investment in London. "They take the attitude, it's a regulated industry ... whoever owns [British businesses], it's the same rules." To foreign shoppers like E.ON, that leaves Britain "wide open," Van Brevoort says. Scottish Power - which already rebuffed a $19 billion bid from...
From the time he assumed the national leadership, becoming Prime Minister in 1978 and State President under a new constitution in 1984, Botha was regarded by South African standards as something of a reformer. He had inherited the apartheid system as defined by the late Hendrik Verwoerd, an elaborate concept that provided not only for racial segregation but for the creation of a group of separate tribal "homelands," in which all of the country's blacks would eventually have theoretical citizenship, even though most would continue to live where they always had, in the black townships of white-ruled South...
...June, 71% of Europeans polled said the E.U. should become a superpower like the U.S. But almost two-thirds of them wanted the E.U. to cooperate with the U.S. rather than compete with it. "The idea that Europe can coalesce around opposition to Bush is just wrong," says Toomas Hendrik Ilves, vice chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the European Parliament and a former Estonian Foreign Minister. Only when Europe is united around a positive, not arrayed against a negative, Ilves argues, will it find its way to unity...
FIRED. JAN HENDRIK SCHON, 32, Bell Laboratories scientist; for allegedly falsifying data in 17 papers that were hailed as breakthroughs in molecular electronics and other fields of physics. Schon admitted he had "made various mistakes" but said he is "convinced" his "[experimental observations] are real...