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...suspect was a camouflaged gunman in his 30s who fatally shot two men at a shipyard and then escaped. Both incidents--along with last July's trading-floor massacre in Atlanta, where an investor killed nine people before turning the gun on himself--attracted extensive live coverage on TV news channels. Anyone tuning in could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S. is in the grip of an epidemic of workplace homicides. Says Barry Glassner, author of The Culture of Fear: "You start wondering whether the person at the next desk...
That's one reason not to sell in the wake of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling on Friday. Things aren't as bleak as they seem, and the stock--depressed in recent weeks--could start to run very soon now that the bad news is out. In perverse Wall Street logic, "the cloud has been lifted," notes analyst Brian Goodstadt at Standard & Poor's. Except for Valley brats who compete with Microsoft (themselves fabulously rich), nobody really wants the stock to fail...
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...whose idea was it to keep controversial feminist author NAOMI WOLF'S role as adviser to AL GORE'S struggling presidential campaign under wraps? Hers, according to the account she offered in the New York Times. But that was news to some Gore campaign officials, who said Wolf had been agitating for a more public profile. She finally blew her own cover with her ostentatious presence at Gore's New Hampshire forum with BILL BRADLEY two weeks ago, where she ignored suggestions to stay away from reporters, say Gore advisers...