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...competence and fearful that Britain's nearly 10,000 troops in Iraq will be killed in increasing numbers. (Twenty-three have died since Bush declared an end to major hostilities on May 1.) In a recent MORI poll of British adults, half the respondents said they wanted Blair to resign right away...
...Lula should have plenty of support for his strategy, since surveys show most Latin Americans have soured on closer trade ties with the U.S. Latin poverty has worsened amid capitalist reforms - a big reason why Bolivians last month forced free- marketeer President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada to resign. In Peru, the polling firm APOYO has found that only around one-third of voters agreed with their government's decision to take Peru out of the G-22. Lula and Brazil have harnessed decades of pent-up frustration with hefty U.S. tariffs. For example, Brazil and the U.S. together...
...plans to track down the hackers - so look for more explosions to come. Family Values Vs. Share Value Call it a family feud: At the BSkyB shareholders' meeting last Friday, Daniel Summerfield of U.S. pension fund CalPERS and British fund USS demanded that 72-year-old chairman Rupert Murdoch resign because of his recent installation of his 30-year-old son James as chief executive. Critics say BSkyB is a family affair too close to the elder's News Corporation. Murdoch Sr. allowed that there was "a suspicion of possible nepotism" but said he's not leaving. "You have...
...said though that, if asked, he would resign from both the Harvard and Department of Health positions...
...trotted out his latest target last week: Richard Strong, chairman of Strong Financial Corp., one of the nation's largest fund firms. Strong is accused of violating securities laws by engaging in short-term trading in his firm's funds, a practice the company prohibits. (Strong said he would resign if appropriate and would personally reimburse any investors who lost money because of his trading.) In a separate move, Putnam Investments became the first firm to be charged in the industry-wide investigation when the Securities and Exchange Commission and Massachusetts regulators filed suit claiming the company had condoned rapid...