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...miserable midsummer storm—gray, hot and humid—presses against the windows of the Tobin Elementary School cafeteria as students weave through the tables, unwrapping breakfast muffins and small containers of juice as they slide into their seats...
...back in fashion. Shrugging off the E.U.'s straitjacket on borrowing for the third straight year, France and Germany last week all but admitted their economies wouldn't fit the tight rules in 2004. In the U.S., sweeping tax cuts and a costly war in Iraq brought a slide from surplus - that is so mid-'90s! - to a record $455 billion deficit in just three years, with the likelihood of further borrowing next year. With the U.K. government having declared record holes in its public finances last week, why would anyone bother to observe that fusty old Growth and Stability...
DOMENICO DE SOLE, president and CEO of luxury-goods group Gucci, after the worst three months in the firm's history saw first-quarter profits slide...
...rash of tribunal cases from employees who think they've been removed early and unjustifiably," says David Frost, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce. More work for lawyers, then. Second Chances A year after scrapping its last attempt at a stock market flotation after a slide in share prices, British telephone-directories group Yell announced plans for a $3.3 billion public offering, the largest in London in two years. Insurance For Cheats A Finnish group is offering to pay the fines of Helsinki public-transport users caught riding without a ticket. For €15 a month, pummit.org will...
...stand in the same exact spot on the platform every day. Without fail, the train screeches to a halt with a pair of doors right in front of me. They slide open and I step into the car as I glance down through the gap between the train and platform to the street below...