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...Come over here and make me. I dare you. You little fruitcake." REPRESENTATIVE PETE STARK, California Democrat, at a Ways and Means Committee meeting that erupted in a dispute over pension reform. Capitol police were called to restore order...
...that putting him forward to contradict Gilligan would induce suicide. Only after his death, when the BBC admitted Kelly was Gilligan's source, did his difficulty in squaring what he had told Gilligan and other BBC reporters with what he told his bosses and the Foreign Affairs Committee become stark. Nevertheless, Blair let Hoon swing in the wind. "I did not authorize the leaking of the name of David Kelly," Blair told reporters. "Emphatically not." Campbell is the government's other big endangered beast. His fists-first rebuttal of Gilligan may have been justified by the blood libel he thought...
...Kent coast, near bleak Romney Marsh. He took refuge in geometry, applying a ruler to nature, and seeking out the regularity of fences, planks, horizons. The Shore (1923) shows the seawall at Dymchurch, which holds the water - in his imagination "cold and cruel" - back from the marsh. A stark composition of gray, blue, gold and terracotta, it shows no trace of life - human, animal or vegetable. Nash flirted with abstraction and Surrealism, asking in 1932 "whether it is possible to 'go modern' and still 'be British.'" In 1933 he helped found Unit One, a movement that aimed to revitalize British...
...think tech stocks--and mutual-fund companies play along. Now it's bond funds. After three years of solid gains, some experts are calling the peak, yet investors, spooked by stock losses, are still piling in. They moved $63 billion into bond funds this year, a stark change from 2000, when they withdrew $50 billion. Fund companies follow the money, notes Standard & Poor's. While 14% of funds opened in 2000 were bond funds, they are 33% of new funds this year, says FundFiling.com --By Barbara Kiviat
...laid off tens of thousands of their staff worldwide in recent years. But it's far less clear that merger mania is good for the companies themselves or their workers. The very consultants who touted mergers in the 1990s have since published studies about the outcome, and they make stark reading. One survey by consultants A.T. Kearney revealed that 58% of mergers failed to reach the value goals set by top managers. A McKinsey & Co. report found that 40% of mergers failed to capture the cost advantages that theoretically justified the takeover. Most starkly of all, Booz Allen & Hamilton concluded...