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...week of the extraordinarily hard fought and closely watched competition for a design to rebuild the World Trade Center site. Now the real work begins: financing a scheme that includes a museum and five office buildings, working with the sharp-elbowed assortment of public authorities and private parties who lay claim to the site and keeping the plan from being nibbled to death by changes. How much of it will actually be built? If you want to make God laugh, the saying goes, tell him your plans...
...Iraq has already received a nice thank-you. On a tour to tell Eastern Europe "how much we appreciate them" for their support, Commerce Secretary Donald Evans last week gave Bulgaria a special treat: he announced that the U.S. now officially considers the country a "market economy." That will lay out a welcome mat to investors...
...chains, Gigante initially stocked the shelves of its U.S. stores with goods supplied by a wholesaling company that dealt with food manufacturers. Since then, growth has allowed for bigger orders at lower prices negotiated directly with manufacturers. (One hiccup along the way: Frias says when Gigante negotiated with Frito-Lay, uninformed local staff members at the giant snackmaker initially asked him for a personal guarantee that he would cover any outstanding payments--something typically asked only of the proprietors of family-owned shops...
...meetings on Capitol Hill and even with the White House. TIME has learned that last Thursday several airline CEOs met with the key members of the Bush Administration economic team, including Treasury Secretary John Snow and Office of Management and Budget chief Mitch Daniels, in the Roosevelt Room to lay out the heavy tax burden they face and the $4 billion in government-ordered security mandates they have had to pick up. According to those familiar with the conversations, the Administration officials listened, but offered no commitments...
...forgotten just how closely those two questions could be linked. The girls’ concern reminded me of my Balkanized high school, where the cliques identified themselves by what they wore; an unbridgeable gulf lay between the preppy soccer players and the black-clad, black-nail-polished kids (for whom I feel a nostalgic pang every time I pass the Harvard Square T station) who haunted an alcove by the soda machine; another gulf lay between those Goths and the swaggering boys who affected a gangsta style. Each of the major clothing-based castes was further subdivided; the school?...