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...hard to remember, standing in Enron's long shadow, that a company in a growth crisis can be as fascinating as one that's just plain in crisis. But Hewlett-Packard is doing its best to remind us. The personalities driving HP's long-running and very public merger debate are larger than life, and the whole of Silicon Valley is riveted by the story. Which, if you haven't been paying attention, goes like this: CEO Carly Fiorina wants a $25 billion marriage with Compaq--the largest tech merger ever--to avoid being squeezed between Dell (the personal-computer...
...Last week, George W. Bush was doing his best to bite that tongue. The phrase "axis of evil" has been all too effective in pressuring North Korea, Iran and Iraq, say White House officials, and now that Bush has rattled the cups, the plain-spoken Texan has to prove he isn't quietly moving bombers into place. So throughout his six day jaunt Bush never whispered the controversial "bloody term," as Colin Powell calls it, and he caused more stir with his diplomatic tones than his war cries. The apparent course change left nervous allies wondering whether Bush...
That was a sign that Rogge is determined to depart from the laissez-faire ethics of his predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch. An even better sign will be an aggressive reform of Olympic judging. But for now it's plain at least that he means to distinguish himself from Samaranch, who winked at controversies such as the bribery scandals that led up to the choice of Salt Lake City as the site of this year's Winter Games and routinely ignored reports of bogus judging. Rogge understands that the value of the Olympic brand is on the line. He was determined...
...Bernie Mac, black dads don Ward Cleaver's authority-figure sweater. Wayans' grouchy suburban dad Michael Kyle is firm and in control--though, Wayans says, "a bit of a Neanderthal." Creatively, My Wife is one of TV's most nondescript sitcoms, from its familiar suburban-family premise to its plain-as-macaroni title, but its very blandness makes TV's skittishness about black comedy seem all the sillier...
...Whoever's energy policy it was - Bush's or Cheney's or Lay's or Sherron Watkins' - it's out there on the road in plain sight, washed and waxed by the House and now very likely to be totaled by Democrats with a lot of different ideas about the energy policy America needs. And in the end, Americans will likely come away with none of the improvements in their energy world that everybody agrees are necessary...