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...agents who investigated his fake-passport operation in New York concluded, as one G-man put it, "You wouldn't trust him as far as you could throw him." Still, another FBI official says, "we really couldn't afford not to take this seriously. There were so many unknowns." Nevertheless, he adds, for all the FBI knew, the men in question might have been "guys who want to be busboys." --With reporting by Daffyd Roderick and Robert Brehl/Toronto
...days a little bit; when Wal-Mart was an underdog, "you could really go after a competitor." Now the company no longer shows comparison-shopping baskets to demonstrate that Wal-Mart has lower prices than competitors. "It just looks like we're picking on people," he says. Nevertheless, Wal-Mart is still pummeling the competition. Over the past two years, Kmart filed for bankruptcy, and Ames and Bradlees, once U.S. powerhouses, closed up shop. Wal-Mart is quickly adding scalps in the grocery industry too. Wal-Mart's next competitive weapon is advanced data mining, which it will...
...Nevertheless, considering the bad financial situation of federal and state governments, we oppose any tax cuts this year. Bush’s 2001 tax cut was a large part of the reason for the current deficits; it would make more sense to repeal that law, which will further reduce income taxes and eliminate the estate tax, instead of speeding up its effects...
...dial-up, the meeting proved relatively uneventful. Lay seemed composed but genuinely concerned and said he would have attorneys look into the questionable deals. Though Watkins counseled against it, Lay suggested--and eventually selected--Enron's law firm, Vinson & Elkins, to conduct the inquiry. Nevertheless, Watkins left feeling buoyed. "I felt, 'Oh, good, now he knows,'" she says. "There was a feeling that I had done the hardest thing in my life, but I had carried the torch and dropped it off." For the first time that week, she slept through the night. In late September, even after netting...
...seriousness, we naturally recognize that the Russian Church’s claim to the Danilov Bells contains more than a measure of legitimacy. Nevertheless, there is something irresistibly comic in the Church’s implicit demand that because we can send men to Mars, we ought to be able to dismantle the Lowell House Bell Tower and send the bells back to Russia in time for the 700th anniversary of Saint Danilov’s death, three months from...