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...camera improvisations of Pitt and Jolie, which nobody associated with the production wants to comment on, despite pages of photos in Us Weekly of the two frolicking on a beach together. "We don't know--nor do you, nor does anyone, that they have actually hooked up anywhere," says Sanford Panitch, president of New Regency, which is releasing the film, with Clintonian aplomb. Whatever happened, they made a movie in which they look smooth trying to kill or kiss each other. Apart from Jennifer Aniston, who doesn't want to see that? --With reporting by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
...they are ominously easy to create. Says Security Consultant Ian Murphy, 28: "Any decent programmer can write a virus in six hours. A novice can write one in 20 hours with assistance and 30 hours without assistance." The perpetrators are frequently disaffected engineers and computer technicians. Says Security Consultant Sanford Sherizen of Natick, Mass.: "A lot of people grew up in data processing, spent years holding computers together with Scotch tape, putting in extra hours, and in recent years of the industry's growth they don't feel they have got an adequate reward...
Some Wall Street analysts argue that the legal threat is not that serious. They consider cigarette stocks to be sharply undervalued. Says Marc Cohen, who follows the industry for Sanford C. Bernstein, a New York brokerage firm: "The financial community is overreacting. It is understating the strength of the manufacturers' defense, and it is overstating the financial consequences." Concurs John Maxwell of Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney: "This is still a healthy business financially...
...Sanford Kresiberg, a business school admissions consultant who follows developments at HBS closely, said that “this was probably not HBS’s fault, but the software vendor?...
...look; shares climbed 4% on the news. Where does that leave rival Unilever? The Anglo-Dutch titan last week announced a 36% slide in pretax profits for 2004. "They need to re-establish a little bit of momentum" before trimming fat, says Andrew Wood of U.S. investment-research firm Sanford C. Bernstein. But don't expect major weight gain. Unilever first needs "to sort its own problems out," he says. Either way, their bankers' coffers will likely swell. - By Adam Smith...