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Despite GM's amazing record, we can be quite confident that the company will not lead the FORTUNE 500 we publish next April. Barring calamity or another jump in oil prices, the new champ will be Wal-Mart, already the world's largest retailer by a mile. Like some cyborg athlete, Wal-Mart moves at a pace that would kill most of its competitors and somehow keeps it up while growing bulkier...
...Cost of Wal-Mart lawn chairs used by B-2 pilots for power naps during 30-hr. missions to Kosovo...
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Deserted by her boyfriend in a Wal-Mart parking lot, the pregnant Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) takes up residence in the store, where she has her baby. In short order she makes friends (Stockard Channing, Ashley Judd), gets a life (as a photographer) and meets a decent chap (James Frain) she slowly learns to love. To say that Heart is a fable of feminist empowerment is to understate a very sentimental case. But the film is well played, particularly by Portman and Judd (who can't stop having babies), and you may find yourself, against all common sense, surrendering...
...just the hot start-ups that have had accounting issues. According to a recent study by Bear, Stearns, mainstays like Wal-Mart and Continental Airlines are among 32 companies that have restated their financial results since the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a clarification in December of the rules on recognizing revenues. For accounting firms, the choices are difficult. Challenge the client's bookkeeping, which Saylor insists was conservative, and you may end up without a client; fail to do so, and you face angry shareholders and their lawyers after the books are put right. PricewaterhouseCoopers, MicroStrategy's auditor...