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Hewlett certainly can't rely on regulators to scuttle the deal. The European Union rubber-stamped the merger without attaching conditions. The FTC will likely do the same. Support for the merger within HP has climbed to 65% from its 55% low, according to internal polling. (That HP has taken internal polls shows just how dicey things were.) And Hewlett's fellow board members have been increasingly eager to point out that Fiorina is not riding roughshod over them. "It's unfair to say this is Carly's deal," says Bob Knowling, a former CEO of Covad. "Compaq just makes...
...clunkers wasn't. I feebly pushed myself along bike paths in Central Park, attracting plenty of gawkers--no small feat among seen-it-all-before Manhattanites. But I could barely move. When I tried to push off as I would with a normal pair of skates, the thick rubber wheels dragged across the ground. So I switched to a cross-country stride, methodically rolling one foot straight ahead, then following with the other. After a few tries, I managed to whiz past the walkers but was still in a dead heat with the joggers. As for swooping down dirt hills...
...stopped short when the referees announced that the Korean skater was disqualified for "cross-tracking," claiming that he had blocked American Apolo Anton Ohno when he attempted to pass Kim in the final few meters of the race. In fury, Kim tossed down the flag, kicked a black rubber lane marker and left the ice in a huff...
However, Wing immediately channeled her anger and did not concede another point in winning the rubber game...
...Start at historic Fort Cornwallis, built by Captain Francis Light, the British trader who took possession of the island in 1786 for the East India Co. and laid the foundations for its rise to prominence as a major trading post for spices, tea, porcelain, textiles, tin and rubber. The fort was once a formidable defense against pirates, the French and the Kedah sultanate on the Malay peninsula, which was bent on reclaiming its captured territory. Now it encloses a peaceful garden, studded with weathered cannons. One cannon in the fort's northeastern corner has taken on the unlikely role...