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Fittingly, The Last Samurai is a movie about men fighting to protect their archaic way of life. Their customs stand no chance of surviving. But the samurai fight on anyway, barreling into battle with their swords drawn against the cannons and artillery guns that boom into the future. At press time, Samurai had earned $98 million in theaters; and according to BigChampagne, about 49,000 copies are bouncing around on the Internet, for free. With reporting by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles, Matthew Forney/Shanghai, Robert Horn/Bangkok, Joyce Huang/Taipei, Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow, Sara Rajan/New Delhi and Grant Rosenberg/Paris
...often we take for granted our freedoms and those who serve to protect them. Thank you for recognizing such deserving people." DAVID EADIE Fredericksburg...
...unanswered question about this winter's flu epidemic was whether the vaccine that Americans were clamoring to get would protect against the predominant Fujian strain. We may have the answer. A preliminary CDC study of 1,818 Colorado hospital workers suggests the vaccine had "no or very low effectiveness"--from 3% to 14%--against the Fujian...
...supply. So it blended malts from several distilleries and, except for changing "single-malt" to "pure-malt" on the bottle, kept the same labeling. That got some tartans in a twist. A Scottish Member of Parliament, Angus Robertson, asked Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene to protect Scotland's heritage, and Diageo agreed to change the color of its bottle. Sales of single-malt whisky continue to rise worldwide, though the overall market is relatively flat, according to Impact Databank. In the U.S., single-malt sales have more than doubled in a decade. It's a tribute to Diageo...
Will Parmalat become Italy's Enron, a crisis that leads to business reform? Don't bet on it. Yes, the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi amended Italy's antiquated bankruptcy rules to protect Parmalat from creditors, and the government plans to merge a plethora of regulators into a single agency with real teeth. But the credibility of these efforts is being undermined by Berlusconi himself, Italy's richest man. For instance, last year the government reduced the penalties for false accounting, an offense for which Berlusconi was indicted in 1999. Also, to avoid bribery charges, he pushed through...