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...loudest crashes in the tech collapse came last month, when mighty Cisco Systems found itself with so many of its finished routers and components stuck in warehouses and going nowhere that CEO John Chambers had to take drastic action. He wrote off a record $2.3 billion in inventory, including $900 million in processors and $300 million in semiconductors. Similar liquidations are taking place throughout the electronics industry. And they're providing fresh opportunities for a small band of nimble souls who are profiting not in spite of the tech slump but precisely because...
...corruption that nationalists and criminals used to make Corsica an unmanageable headache for French governments since 1975. Conservative detractors like Nicole Ameline, spokeswoman for the centrist Liberal Democracy Party, argued the bill legitimizes "violence as a means of gaining political recognition." Other rightists condemned it as "preparing independence." The loudest protests came from Jospin's own leftist majority. Former Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement - who resigned last year in protest against Jospin's plans - decried the bill, asking, "Who is so naive to believe that whatever is granted to Corsicans today won't also be demanded tomorrow...
...some of the loudest cheers came yesterday when PSLM members announced the University's moratorium on outsourcing. But the moratorium is only good through December, and contains provisos that allow the Medical School to continue outsourcing with union approval...
...pitch the first inning for $100,000 or give some multi-millionaire baseball-player-wannabe three at-bats for the same price? They don't win many games anyway; and who knows, the fans might really take to it. I've been at basketball games where the crowd yells loudest when the guy at half-time misses the million dollar half-court shot. It's the same sort of thing. It's a little like "Survivor," only the participants pay to get on the show. It's really an alternative tax for the wealthy - a tax, unlike every other, that...
...knew was interested in food. And suddenly there I was writing about the subject in New York City, in the '90s, when Americans were interested and knowledgeable and the city had the money to go out and eat. There I was, placed as the person whose voice was the loudest...