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...face, the Herald Tribune wouldn't seem worth the heartburn. It sells just 264,000 copies, spread thinly over 180 countries. Investors were happy to see Graham shed the money loser; the Washington Post Co.'s shares rose on the news. "Who cares about it except some guy in a bar in France?" said Ed Atorino, newspaper analyst at Blaylock & Partners...
...long road, and the story bogs down. Eco comes up with one-legged creatures, manticores and other literary special effects, but none that make this lengthy book as much brainy fun as The Name of the Rose, his wizardly first novel. "I'll tell you more about him," Baudolino promises at one point about Prester John. "Maybe even too much." Now that observation is indisputably true. --By Richard Lacayo
Many Russians will cheer the success of the rescue. But the Chechen raid may also kindle fierce debate about Putin's war. He rose to the presidency of Russia in 2000 on a promise to restore Moscow's grip on the rebellious republic of Chechnya. For the past two years, he regularly claimed victory was all but won. As the champion of order and stability, Putin enjoyed strong public standing, while the government's harsh censorship of news from the war zone nearly a thousand miles from the capital has kept the grim realities of the stalemated conflict...
...they publish third-quarter results later this month. Why, in a country once renowned for its scrupulous financial management, are so many banks doing so poorly? The answer is simple: bad debts, a knock-on effect from Germany's soaring bankruptcy rate. At Deutsche, provisions for loan write-offs rose to j753 million for the third quarter, nearly six times what they were a year before. In addition Deutsche, and to a lesser extent Commerzbank and Dresdner, have spent considerable sums over the past seven years building up their presence in investment banking - bad timing, in the face of bearish...
...hitting his first field goal attempt was huge, and I think it gave the team more confidence in him,” says captain and quarterback Neil Rose. “He wasn’t hitting all of them in practice, so it was great to see him hit it when it counted...