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...decided to use as storage space. Sen's decision to buy out his landlord was crucial to the long-term survival of the Kong. To this day, he is revered by local proprietors for his business acumen. Billy Bartley, who works the grill at his father's famous burger joint, gushes, "Mr. Lee was the smartest man. The only man on the whole avenue who owns his own building--that makes him brilliant. Absolutely. The bunch of us are at the whim of our landlord. The guy was a genius...
...more likely to take. A renegade state could sneak a nuclear bomb into New York City in a truck or the hold of a freighter, or simply lob a Scud-like missile full of lethal germs into Manhattan from 20 miles offshore, neatly passing underneath the shield. Even the Joint Chiefs of Staff "worry more about a suitcase bomb going off in one of our cities," Cohen admits. "Very few countries are going to launch an ICBM, knowing that they are going to face virtual elimination...
...Pentagon has already given it a name--Operation Joint Guardian. It would probably begin by sending in the Marines. More than 2,000 leathernecks now on ships floating in the Mediterranean would be the first wave to chopper into Kosovo. They'd be part of a 4,000-strong U.S. presence in a NATO peacekeeping force of 28,000. Red lines are even being drawn on maps. American G.I.s would control a sector of Kosovo. British, French, German and Italian forces would carve up other sectors. But no NATO soldiers will set foot in the province if the Serbs...
Armstrong has leveraged his stock's rising value in a series of bold deals, including a joint venture announced last week with the country's No. 1 cable provider, Time Warner (parent company of Time). The deal--which still needs the approval of another Time Warner partner and possibly that of local regulators--would give AT&T exclusive access for 20 years to Time Warner cable systems, which reach 12.6 million subscribers in 33 states. Starting next year, AT&T would provide local-phone service through the same wires that carry cable TV, thus circumventing the regional-Bell local-phone...
...MEDICAL FRONT: After irate medical professionals objected to the decision to fire George Lundberg, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the A.M.A. said it would allow Lundberg to contribute articles. The editor and the beleaguered organization released a joint statement saying they had "resolved substantive differences...