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Pepperdine must have called back. Two years and one impeachment after he quit the first time, Ken Starr?s aides say the big guy is thinking about hanging up his deerstalker and washing his hands of the Whitewater/Lewinsky/Filegate/Travelgate/Fostergate quagmire once and for all. What nobody seems to know is whether he?ll finish his business first. "He's never said to us, ?I?m leaving,?" a Justice Department official told the Associated Press, but the official did say that Starr?s aides were asking about whether Justice, after all this time on the sidelines, would be interested in taking over...
...picturing a tougher management bind than this one: half your valuable people have quit over concerns about the future direction of the company. They've taken some of your most important material assets with them, and it looks as if their departure will bring the whole place down soon. How do you handle it? The short answer might be: Make a great speech. Inspire your still-loyal workers. At least that's what Abe Lincoln would have done...
...moving ballads sparkle with life, Ferrer suddenly became an unwanted relic of the island's precommunist past. The rustic sound he loved so much held dwindling relevance to the sleek, popular sounds of modern Cuba. So in the early 1990s, having never acquired any renown beyond Cuban shores, he quit music in frustration and turned to shining shoes for a living, which earned him more money anyway...
...some estimates, the number of folks who have quit their job to trade full time at day-trading firms is about 5,000--a relative pittance. But add in those who trade online at home or between meetings at the office, and you may have as many as 5 million. Technology makes it possible; the bull market makes it irresistible...
...Internet and other high-tech companies prized for their big price swings. Since April, Net stocks have fallen on hard times, revealing many formerly brilliant day traders to be little more than lucky novices. Unfamiliar with strategies like selling short or hedging with options, many have lost big and quit. But the flushing out is far from complete...