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...Unsung Irving Berlin." If ever a "new" Berlin song were to hit the charts, it'd be this country-style waltz. Not much content to the lyric, but a rolling melody that instantly insinuates itself in the listener's mind; I believe that's why it's called a "hook." Paging Alan Jackson...
...winner is ChemConnect of San Francisco, which has become "close to the NASDAQ of chemicals," says Stanford economics professor Bob Hall, author of Digital Dealing. ChemConnect has offices in seven countries and offers to bring together buyers and sellers worldwide. But rather than try to hook the computers of all participants into one online catalog, it started with a simple electronic bulletin board where buyers and sellers could post what they had or were seeking. From there the company worked up to more sophisticated auctions...
...biggest player—7’0 center Brian Sigafoos—played just nine minutes in the game. When Sigafoos was late jumping out to cover his assignment, 6’4 forward Chris Brown, on two straight three-point shots, he almost immediately got the hook. Sigafoos didn’t play again...
...contention echoed by a senior Saudi official. But U.S. sources tell TIME that intelligence shows movements of people, money and weapons to Muslim fighters in Bosnia financed by the charity as recently as 1999. It's clear that U.S. officials are not going to let the Saudis off the hook easily...
...call it extortion. Why should George W. Bush even contemplate signing away his free-market beliefs right in the middle of a renewed push in Congress for fast-track authority and freer world trade? Because the Pension Benefit Guarantee Act already puts the government on the hook for at least $2 billion in pension costs if Big Steel goes under. Because steel-state congressmen might be persuaded to help Bush pass free-trade legislation, if their constituents are the exception to the rule. Because the steel states and the swing states - West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania -are one and the same...