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TIME: What will you do after you retire? STREET: Being a ski racer has defined me for the last 15, 20 years of my life, and I?d like to find myself away from that. I want to go out and slide around like normal people who go skiing instead of having to make perfect carving turns the entire way down the mountain. But to be really honest, what I want to do when I get done skiing is just sit on my couch, watch some TV and catch up with what?s going on in America right...
...relatively safe route into Japan is blue-chip Japanese exporters, which, while not dirt cheap, stand to benefit from renewed buying among U.S. customers and a continuing slide in the yen. David Bowers, chief international strategist at Merrill Lynch, likes the copier company Canon, where 84% of sales are outside Japan, and consumer electronics giant Pioneer, where 64% of sales are outside Japan. Also on his list is Nissan, which has been aggressively investing in new production technologies. All three stocks trade in the U.S. as American Depositary Receipts...
...huge challenge is not to slide into the miasma of Afghanistan's impossible politics. Diplomats say an ambush of U.S. special forces earlier this month in the province of Khost, in which Green Beret Sergeant Nathan Chapman was killed, may have been in reprisal for the U.S.'s backing an unpopular local warlord there, Pacha Khan Zadran. Zadran has enemies within his own tribe, including one who claims to be Khost's new governor and whose 500 fighters captured part of Khost last week. Twice now, Zadran's foes say, he has called in U.S. air strikes on his enemies...
...going to dominate night in and night out," warned his buddy, the noted hoop philosopher Charles Barkley. "I don't think they will make the play-offs." Neither Jordan nor the Wiz did anything to dispel that notion, dropping 10 of their first 13 games, including an eight-game slide, the longest of Jordan's career. He scored a personal-low 6 points one night. His knees were aching. "It's disappointing more than frustrating," he said after yet another loss. "We've made some improvements since Day One, but [we're] not nearly where we should...
...Crimson’s game against Penn wasn’t crucial just because Harvard needed to avoid a two game-slide, but also because the game was a grudge match...