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...soccer fields and friendly dogs. "Our heaven had an ice cream shop, where, when you asked for peppermint stick ice cream, no one ever said, 'It's seasonal.'" But even ice cream gets boring after a while, so Susie turns her attention back to earth. She watches as the shock waves of her death spread slow-motion havoc among her family and friends - her brave but vulnerable dad, her precocious younger sister, her bewildered classmates, the boy she had a crush on. She watches dispassionately as her killer - the fastidious, emotionally damaged Mr. Harvey - carefully disperses her body parts...
...just like a high-flying American CEO, and that (along, of course, with a 70 percent drop in the price of the company's stock since the beginning of this year) is what got him in trouble with his board and the French people. His forced resignation Tuesday sent shock waves throughout markets on both sides of the Atlantic. Shares in Vivendi fell as much as 40 percent on the Paris Stock Exchange that day as Le Monde questioned the company's accounting practices and Moody's cut Vivendi's credit rating to junk bond status. In New York, other...
...Vietnam: Settling Old Scores Japan: Cult Shock Malaysia: Mahathir's Exit Plan Hong Kong: Five Years...
...Vietnam: Settling Old Scores Japan: Cult Shock Malaysia: Mahathir's Exit Plan Hong Kong: Five Years...
...really expect anything else? Sure, we had a month-long football festival in two countries without strong soccer traditions, and yes, it was full of surprises. There were the astonishing early eliminations?favorites Argentina and reigning champions France headed home after the first round. There were the shock victories, like Senegal's 1-0 win over the French in an opening match that set the tourney's roller-coaster tone, and the U.S.'s 3-2 defeat of Portugal that helped the Americans advance to the quarterfinals for the first time since 1930. And there were the Cinderella marches...