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...accuse a U.S. soldier (or Defense Secretary, for that matter) of war crimes. Europeans say safeguards prevent such an eventuality. (The ICC, for example, is meant to take up cases only if national authorities fail to investigate complaints.) And so the squabble poisons an Atlantic relationship that is already sour...
...Italians would sit back and allow the Koreans to attack. The hosts were happy to oblige. For the final third of regulation time, only one side showed genuine appetite for goals. That side won. Justice was done. It's up to you whether you want to eat your sour grapes, Giovanni, but don't pelt them at the referee...
...Belmont Stakes this week, trying to become the first horse to win the Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978. It's a great script, at least to anyone who isn't in the horse-racing game. Back at the barn, though, Baffert is getting a whiff of some sour oats from other trainers. The notion is that he "bought" the Derby for nearly $1 million, using his Middle Eastern ATM to pry War Emblem loose from a struggling Chicago businessman, since Reineman's company, Crown Steel Sales, was losing money. This, in a sport in which multimillion prices are routinely...
Meanwhile, silly ideas spawned brilliant web-based businesses. Perhaps the single most life-changing example was Kozmo.com, the company that sold you cigarettes, Sour Patch Kids, and Swanson frozen dinners at retail-competitive prices while still managing to have them delivered to your door within an hour. Hundreds of Harvard students drove the Boston operation by incessantly ordering $3 of candy every evening before Seinfeld reruns came...
CyberRebate wasn’t the only company hurting. As the Internet bubble started showing its first signs of collapse so did Kozmo’s business plan. The company instituted a minimum order of $10 (how many Sour Patch Kids is that again?) and before gasping its last breath, finally started charging for delivery. Harvard kids returned to 7-Eleven in droves, and in April 2001, Kozmo made its final delivery way, way behind schedule: 1,100 pink slips...