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...last week if Bell Atlantic chairman Raymond Smith and Tele-Communications Inc. president and chief executive officer John Malone had not got stuck on a boat off the coast of Maine. The merger talks were going nowhere that August afternoon when the two men decided to head back to shore, only to find that the anchor of Malone's 70-ft. sailboat had snagged an underwater power line. While divers spent two hours cutting the boat free, Smith and Malone had little choice but to continue trying to unsnarl the deal. ''We were lucky we weren't electrocuted,'' says Smith...
Americans also need ways to shore up their retirement--particularly as traditional pensions disappear--and they need help stewarding the retirement money they receive. So one consortium of public-policy research groups is exploring ways to link retirees who get lump-sum 401(k) payouts with services to help them manage their money for the long term...
...current President when they cast their ballots in November. After McCain secured his party's nomination in March, he visited the White House to receive a Rose Garden endorsement from the President. "Dutiful" did not begin to describe the event. But McCain needed Bush's blessing to help him shore up support among conservatives...
Such heavy-handed attempts to shore up the regime seem to work for now, but they may be shortsighted. A recent study conducted by the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based NGO, argues that it would be beneficial, both for the government and the country, to gradually integrate the Brotherhood into Egypt's political system. ICG analysts say that Mubarak's efforts to combat the Brothers have "noticeably degraded the quality of parliamentary and political life, entrenching the NDP's virtual monopoly and dealing a severe blow to the legal, non-Islamist opposition...
...original dealer was vague about the tablet's origin. But Jeselsohn, who is also an expert on East Mediterranean antiquities, says that the ink writing could only have survived for 2,000 years if it were kept in an extremely dry climate, possibly along the Jordanian shore of the Dead Sea. Most likely, says Jeselsohn, the tablet was considered sacred and displayed upright in a public area such as a synagogue...