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...cockpit controls with GE's engines and powerful aircraft financing division would stifle competition. In other words, he viewed with suspicion precisely those synergies that, for Welch, made the deal so attractive. Monti would approve the merger only if Welch made the kind of concessions that, from GE's standpoint, wrecked its whole point. The next morning Monti called Welch once more, to discuss how the apparent breakdown in talks should be handled. GE issued a statement saying that attempts at compromise fell "far short" of Monti's "extraordinary demands...
...From a criminal-justice standpoint, the start of the searching seems ridiculously tardy. Chandra Levy has been missing since April 30, and to put it baldly, physical evidence is probably in short supply by now. But from a media standpoint, a slow accumulation of angles and subplots is most desirable - the news-consuming public wants a mystery, a topic of conversation, not a data dump...
Unfortunately, there is nowhere else quite so convenient. Okinawa suits American purposes because of its proximity to the Korean peninsula and the rest of Asia. From the standpoint of the government in Tokyo, keeping so many American troops in Okinawa makes sense; that way they are segregated from the Japanese mainland. Koizumi has said, however, that he wants to "lighten the burden" on the island. Japanese have paid rapt attention to the debate on the U.S. bombing range in Vieques, Puerto Rico, and to Washington's decision to close the range in 2003. But the chances of such a dispensation...
Lucinda writes from a very personal standpoint, and that can be difficult. When you go that close to the bone, you are always risking bathos--or being corny or cloying. She plays in dangerous territory, and sometimes you're not sure she's gonna pull it out. I am always amazed by her song Sweet Old World because it could so easily have been sentimental. Instead it is just haunting. It goes right to the heart of a kind of desperation that everyone has felt. And her words take you to another place and make you look at loneliness...
...among parts of the European media that merely by showing up and speaking English--never mind the basic Spanish that he used when visiting Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in Madrid--he would have been judged a resounding success. He sailed over that low bar. From the U.S. standpoint, the week's only truly sour note had nothing to do with the President's performance. It came, rather, with a surprise announcement by Jack Welch, chairman and CEO of General Electric Co. The conditions that the E.U.'s competition authorities wished to place on GE's merger with Honeywell International...