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Reorganizing a company is a timeworn way of trying to change the direction of a stock without facing fundamental problems. "When you have a company under pretty severe attack from the outside and you exacerbate that with a disorienting reorganization, I don't get very optimistic," says Anna-Maria Kovacs, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott. She downgraded the stock even before the press conference...
...election season sees its trends and twists. Late in this campaign, for instance, we saw the anti-negative negative ad. In New York's Senate race, Democrat Hillary Clinton attacked Republican Rick Lazio for his having attacked her by tying her to Middle East terrorism. In Washington State, Democrat Maria Cantwell released a spot saying, "You know what's wrong in politics today? All the negative ads" - and then aired a hatchet ad saying her adversary "broke his promise to seniors," accompanied by the sound of breaking glass. Others put the attack in the mouths of celebrities or regular people...
...Cuban-born, Boston-based artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons accosts her viewers with an accusatory solemnity. The way Campos-Pons looks out from her self-portraits reminds me of how Frida Kahlo stares out of hers; the two artists both use the self-portrait as a vehicle for complicated meditations on maternity, pain and nationality. In "Nesting I" (2000), four large-format Polaroids set side by side, the two photographs in the middle show the artist with her eyes calmly shut, her face decorated with yellow and green paint, her shoulders and neck with cruel scratches. The wooden bird perched...
Authors Roberta J. Glass, Maria Segui-Gomez and John D. Graham, director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis (HCRA), analyzed data from fatal accidents from 1989 to 1998 involving 16,177 children...
...Maria Cantwell is not your typical Internet whiz kid. At 42, she's more like an Internet whiz-kid's high school principal. Sit down to interview her, and you get a moment of silence before she answers each question with a disarming smile. You'd never guess that Cantwell, Washington State's Democratic Senate candidate, is an executive on leave from RealNetworks, the Seattle-based Internet giant--and the first dotcom millionaire with a shot at winning major political office...