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...Allen Counter, who is director of the Harvard Foundation, says the College found one space on Plympton Street that the Harvard Foundation could rent, but he isn’t happy about the prospect...
...renewed inspection regime, authorized according to strict guidelines in a new Security Council resolution still offers the U.S. plenty of triggers for war. The Iraqis have their own idea of "unconditional" inspections, and hope to return simply to the pre-1998 status quo - a prospect flatly rejected by Washington, and also by the Europeans. It remains to be seen whether Baghdad will seek to continue preventing inspections of Saddam's palaces and other politically sensitive sites, or to blacklist inspectors believed to be spying for the U.S. Russia and Iraq's Arab neighbors will likely be doing their utmost...
...Iraq's offer to accept weapons inspectors back may have been dismissed as meaningless by the White House, but the markets have welcomed Saddam's move. Foreign markets and the Dow futures indicate that Wall Street is set for a stellar day, while oil prices fell sharply on the prospect of avoiding war with Iraq. Seems like the markets may not be entirely in agreement with White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey, who said in comments reported Monday that even though a war may cost the U.S. up to $200 billion, it would be good for business...
...existing brands for only so long without developing a new blockbuster product, the kind it hasn't had since the Always feminine pad debuted in 1983. The Swiffer electrostatic mop and ThermaCare heat wraps have been only modest successes. And despite the early encouraging reception for Actonel--and the prospect of promising future treatments for diabetes and female sexual dysfunction--the relatively small, billion-dollar pharmaceutical division is still a major question mark. As Duke University business professor Kevin Schulman argues, consumer products and drugs "have very different product life cycles. Compared with P&G's core business, pharmaceuticals...
...disorder makes its debut, patients and doctors join the ticket line first, but eventually the lawyers queue up too. That's when the trouble tends to start. For America's attorneys, who might be said to specialize already in Relational Disorders--in creating them and making them worse--the prospect of such a fuzzy diagnosis must look like a row of cherries on a slot machine. By clouding the notion of personal responsibility even as the classification opens up vast new realms of mutual and collective liability, RD, as it will inevitably be referred to on daytime-TV talk shows...