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...perhaps as a result, deliver lower profit margins than they once did. ABC, snapped up by Eisner back in 1995, has suffered its own turmoil and a ratings free fall (this past season brought the network the indignity of finishing behind Fox in the 18-to-49 demographic). The launch of Disney's cruise line has been delayed by shipyard snafus...
...major cities in India, was already being capped with nuclear warheads. But both countries could probably deploy nuclear-tipped missiles within months. Since those missiles could reach their targets in 10 minutes or less, "you have a situation where either side, thinking its forces may be under attack, would launch on warning," says a Clinton aide. And without satellites to spot the other side's preparations, "the warning is not going to be all that dependable." In the old cold war parlance, it's a hair-trigger situation, in which miscalculation could easily lead to a nuclear exchange...
...large aid package for a Chinese hospital, at a time after the Tiananmen massacre when few countries were willing to deal with China. So far, evidence that the woman was a spy is a little shaky. But last week the opposition Democratic Party of Japan announced it would launch an investigation of the relationship and of the woman. Result: a lot of questions--Why was Hashimoto using a Chinese, not a Japanese, interpreter? How did the woman subsequently get Japanese citizenship so easily?--are being raised, and loudly...
Rowe is the sixth vice president to resign during Rudenstine's tenure. Harvard will likely launch an extensive and lengthy search for his replacement starting this summer...
Rowe married Yale graduate Lisa Adams in 1981and has two children, Lucia and Christopher.Anticipating Rowe's return to Washington, Adamsand their children moved back earlier this year sothat she could launch her own interior designfirm