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Campbell received an e-mail message from AlenaWilliams yesterday informing him that he was nolonger vice chair and that his name had been takenoff the BGLTSA's executive board e-mail list...
...such precision highlights a problem: the effectiveness of those weapons is directly proportional to the quality of the intelligence used in selecting their targets. For many sites on the Pentagon's growing list of Iraqi targets, U.S. knowledge is scant. If war does come to Iraq soon, it is a good bet that lots of very expensive U.S. smart bombs are going to be blowing up lots of recently vacated Iraqi buildings...
Many U.S. executives savored fat bonuses last month after their companies pulled in record sales and profits. But not Lawrence Coss, the chief executive officer of mobile-home lender Green Tree Financial, who in 1996 surprisingly topped the list of highest-paid corporate leaders--overshadowing such titans as the Travelers Group's Sanford Weill and Walt Disney's Michael Eisner. Whoops! To his dismay, Coss may have to repay $40 million of the $102 million bonus he received that year because Green Tree now concedes that accounting errors led it to overstate profits. Says the taciturn and reclusive Coss...
What's your next Special Report? A list of Congressmen who are fooling around with staff members? DOUG WALKER Asheville...
RAMPANT RESUMANIA Don't politicians love to talk! Take Senators. And their resumes in the Congressional Directory--printed at taxpayers' expense. On average, it takes 14 lines of fine print for each of the 100 to list family, educational pedigrees, military valor, career coups and "distinguished" awards (Republicans tend to need 15 lines, Democrats only 13). Who's the Senate's run-off-at-the-mouth winner? None other than its filibuster champion, Strom Thurmond, at--count 'em--79 lines. The Top 10 boasters...