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...this wasn't a bottom, there's something very bouncy down there. Pushed over a cliff by underwhelming earnings reports from components IBM and JP Morgan, the Dow plummeted 435 points to a nostalgic (March '99) level of 9654 before 10 a.m. Big Blue dropped 23 points, Morgan shed 18, the curbs were on, and panic...
...taken the lead. According to a recent Human Rights Campaign study, 25% more employers--including 46% more FORTUNE 500 companies--are offering health benefits to their employees' same-sex partners than did last year. Among the firms that have come out and expanded benefits in the past year are IBM, Coca-Cola and the Boeing...
...walking around at Circular Quay. Two Aboriginal homeless people had already taken up positions on a bench. They were sitting in the shadow of this immense ocean liner out of Nassau called the Crystal Harmony, a big boat full of titans with tickets, all of it paid for by IBM. Anyway, these Aboriginals were sitting there, backed by gleaming skyscrapers that are the heart of new Sydney, and the woman asked the man if he were going to wait for the torch to pass by. "That's why I'm here," he said. "The torch means friendship." Broke my heart...
...looming presidential election may well have stimulated increased interest in the American Presidency course this year," said Roger B. Porter, IBM professor of business and government at the Kennedy School of Government...
...given out 5,000 pins in exchange for a smile," he says. Falcao prides himself on his diplomacy and his knack for sealing a deal. A man approaches him and offers a Korean delegation pin, but the one he wants Falcao to give him in return - an IBM-laptop pin - is far more valuable. "This is a $30 pin!" Falcao tells the man. "Touch it. Feel it." The man walks away; Falcao is irked. "I will never forget that guy's face. That will bother me until I get it - and I will get it," he says...