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...Would-be shoe bomber Richard C. Reid's possible links to the radical jihadist movement are being urgently probed by authorities in the U.S. as well as in several European countries where the British ex-con traveled recently. But despite some fervent speculation, FBI agents so far have no evidence that Reid conspired with others in his attempt to ignite explosives hidden in his sneakers while flying from Paris to Miami on Dec. 22. Reid did attend the same London mosque as Zacarias Moussaoui, now on trial for terrorism conspiracy in U.S. federal court. But neither...
Richard Reid's particular gift to America is that now airport security looks like a Japanese restaurant. Passengers nationwide are removing their shoes for inspection, the legacy of Reid's failed attempt to blow up an American Airlines plane with C4 plastic explosive hidden in the heel of his shoe. It's led to even longer lines at the gate during the holiday travel season. But for all the added hassle, we're still not witnessing the full implementation of those stricter new airlines security measures promised after the Sept. 11 attacks. It may be a long wait...
...tariffs. Go down that road and you get a trade war, not to mention the other-shoe problem of cheaper Nissans made with cheaper foreign steel needing tariffs of their own to spare GM. It ain't quotas - raising product prices to prop up commodity prices is not a smart way to grow an economy in which services are 80 percent of GDP and consumers pull 66 percent of the economic weight. And Paul O'Neill going to Japan and telling them to shut down two plants so two can live in West Virginia? A superpower that believes...
...With the decline in stock prices over the past six months stopped, people began to go back to Enron for deals. "We were high-fiving ourselves," Watson recalls. "The one thing that could hurt us was another surprise. The infamous one more shoe. Well, the closet hit us on Monday, when they filed the Q-10 [with the SEC] and it contained surprises. They weren't enough to kill the deal, but the fact was they were a surprise. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the stock lost over 50 percent. On Tuesday we were in panic mode. We were scrambling...
Junior Kendra Barron will be a competitor in the 200 and 400. Barron is best-known for leading Harvard to victory in the mile relay during freshman year after passing three teams on her leg, despite losing a shoe during the race...