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...prison for lying to federal investigators about her sale of ImClone stock; in Alderson, West Virginia. Stewart is appealing the verdict, but last month asked to begin serving her sentence immediately. DIED. PETE McCARTHY, 52, English-Irish travel writer and broadcaster; of cancer. He was best known for his keen observations and deadpan humor in McCarthy's Bar, a meander through Ireland in which he "never pass[ed] a bar that has your name on it." He followed that book's success with The Road to McCarthy, in which he pursued the Irish diaspora around the world. McCarthy wrote...
...UNITED STATES THE CAMPAIGN: Bush and Kerry are both keen to court women voters IN THE ARENA: Joe Klein on the wins and spins of the first debate...
...many people will make up stories to explain why the Europeans—and everyone else, for that matter—take such a keen interest in the United States, its culture and its language. Stories to account for their astoundingly successful efforts to teach their younger generations to speak English, for their indomitable preference for American clothes, music, movies and television programs at the expense of their native industries, for their incessant focus on America in their news coverage (to the point of following our election more closely than their own), for their avid taste for American food?...
...final decision. British Prime Minister Tony Blair was put into his present position by members of the Labour Party. Economic affluence is what we people of Hong Kong want, as do the many multinational companies and expatriates working in the region. Our fear is that inexperienced lawmakers in keen pursuit of high ideals may overlook the economic issues facing the city. Cynthia Szeto Hong Kong...
...infrastructure is reasonable and Islamic separatist movements are not as formidably organized as they are in Saudi Arabia or Iraq. Then again, these places are political and environmental disaster zones in their own rights, replete with legacy pollution from the Soviet era and rapacious governments that are only too keen to make you pay for their mistakes. One typical experience this summer had me constructing a financial model to price an oilfield with a $200 million liability for legacy pollution. The variable in the model that covered this was “theft—yes/no.” Simply...