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...true believers--who refrain from meat as an A.A. member does from drink and do a spit-take if told that there's gelatin in their soup--a semivegetarian is no vegetarian at all. A phrase like pesco-pollo-vegetarian, to them, is an oxymoron, like "lapsed Catholic" or "semivirgin." Vegetarian Times, the bible of this particular congregation, lays down the dogma: "For many people who are working to become vegetarians, chicken and fish may be transitional foods, but they are not vegetarian foods ... the word 'vegetarian' means someone who eats no meat, fish or chicken...
...might not exactly roar, but it looks set to purr along quite nicely. CORPORATE MANAGEMENT It's a Quick Trip Down from the Top "so long, it's been good to know yuh," Woody Guthrie wrote in a 1935 song about migrants during the Great Depression. But now the refrain applies equally well to ceos, whose stays at the top are getting shorter. The career of Luc Vandevelde, 51, right, the Belgian ceo of Marks & Spencer, is a typical case: after joining the company two years ago and helping reverse its decline, he stepped aside last week. A study...
...Commission. The SEC has filed fraud charges and is launching an investigation--as is the Justice Department, at least two congressional committees and the state of Mississippi, where WorldCom is based. All current and former employees, along with WorldCom's ex-accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, have been ordered to refrain from Enron-like paper shredding. Investigators are especially eager to hear from WorldCom founder Bernie Ebbers, who resigned as CEO in April, not long after it was revealed that he owed the company $366 million in low-interest loans. Ebbers had worked closely with Sullivan, whose office adjoined...
...Israel's offensive has turned international public opinion strongly against Sharon, and they hope to hold onto that PR advantage by restraining suicide bombers from crossing Israel's 1967 borders. An Al Aksa Martyr's Brigade commander told the New York times two days ago that his group would refrain from sending bombers into Israel proper, focusing their attacks only on soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. And the Palestinian Authority appears to have extracted a similar promise from Hamas in order to avoid a Palestinian civil war - because the PA's very existence would...
...even Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres had, it seemed, convinced Bush that there was no chance of curbing Palestinian terrorism without restoring some hope among the Palestinians that there was a peaceful route to independence. But the countervailing pressure remained strong: Bush administration hawks urged the President to refrain from pressing for political concessions to the Palestinians as long as violence persisted on the grounds that this would reward terrorism...