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...strategy of invoking a Palestinian menace -- his campaign is even running TV ads filled with gruesome footage from pre-1996 suicide bombings -- but voters don't appear to be taking the bait. Israelis have become accustomed, since the Oslo Agreement came unstuck in 1996, to a permanent state of low-level crisis in their relations with the Palestinians. "For the voters, this election is not about the peace process," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. And that's left Netanyahu flailing...
Although HLS was not able to grant fellowships to all who applied, another program, the HLS low income protection plan, helps students pay off loans, Shabecoff said...
...Value investing still works. "I like to look at asset plays, stuff that makes sense no matter which way the market goes," says Carl Icahn, one of the few '80s raiders still plying that trade. Buying stocks with low multiples of earnings is out of fashion in today's Internet market. But that's where the long-term values...
SNAP, CRACKLE, PAY Following Kellogg and Quaker Oats, General Mills just raised cereal prices 2.5%, adding a nickel or dime to boxes of Wheaties and Cheerios. It's a risky move for the industry, what with low grain prices, inflation nonexistent and cereal selling for about $2.85 a box. In the past few years, consumers and investors have punished Kellogg for raising prices; it reported a 30% slide in earnings last week, and its CEO was eased out this year for the poor performance...
SURFER'S SPECIAL Leave it to Nike to develop a sports watch that's way cool but only halfway useful. Its new Typhoon watch ($135) gives daily high- and low-tide data for 175 of the most popular surf spots in the world, from Oahu to Okinawa. Nike claims the Typhoon will be accurate for 50 years, thanks to a special algorithm that considers everything from the moon's pull to the topographical nuances of each beach. Of course, surfers on a tight budget can always check the tide tables in the local newspaper instead...