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...with four or five competitors in many European markets, operators may find they have little more pricing power in data than they do in voice. "[Multimedia messaging] may prove popular, but I think people are going to take it for granted," says Iain Daly, an analyst at Charles Stanley in London. The operators are convinced they've got something that people will both want and pay a premium for, and they'd better be right. Because if this doesn't work, 3G really is dead...
...Lanchester is a skilled stylist, though, and he writes brilliantly of such things as Hong Kong's brutal occupation by the Japanese during World War II. Here his emotional distance serves him well. At the Stanley internment camp, Tom says, "morale was surprisingly high, not least because when it dropped, people tended to die." Understatement is perhaps the only appropriate response in the face of brutal suffering. His deadpan style is as clean and potent as a rifle shot...
...against major currencies since April 1. Famed hedge-fund manager and currency speculator George Soros says the buck could fall an additional 33%. "We're at a tipping point of whether foreigners take a massive stake out of the U.S.," says Joseph Quinlan, senior global economist at Morgan Stanley. "If you have another accounting issue along with weaker than expected growth and poor profitability, then you may see a vicious circle." The next in the series. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/Jackson, Daren Fonda/New York City and Collette Parker/Atlanta
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...DIED. STANLEY LLOYD GREIGG, 71, former Iowa Congressman who filed the criminal complaint that sparked the Watergate investigation; of a heart attack; in Roanoke, Va. As then deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Greigg was called in by Washington police on June 17, 1972, to view a lineup of the five Watergate burglars...