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...years later the combined company's stock is down to $15 from $72 and the AOL unit is still looking for a model that can come close to the dizzying growth rates of the past. Throw in several ongoing investigations into accounting at the pre-merger AOL and the suspicion that in the end, it was only the hard assets of Time Warner that have saved AOL from a real meltdown, and you have the business world's last half-decade written in micrososm. In the saga of the century's biggest bubble, AOL Time Warner was the grand...
...Truculent bureaucrats aren't the only force arrayed against Shang. Ordinary Chinese who bought shares at the government's urging now fear that stock-market reforms will drive prices down even further. After all, they've seen how stocks plummet when government investigators target a company on suspicion of corruption. Some shareholder advocates say the CSRC's proposed reforms should actually be shelved because the policies will hurt the widows and orphans who spent their last fen on stocks. "The government sold shares to the people for far too much money, and it can't let the market...
...none of its 16,000 members are war criminals. The EUPM mandate will continue until 2005, at a cost of €38 million per year. The mission was welcomed by the U.S., which has long urged Europe to take a greater role in peacekeeping in the Balkans. FRANCE Under Suspicion A baggage handler arrested at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport after guns and explosives were found in the boot of his car was placed under formal investigation for the illegal possession of weapons and criminal association with a terrorist organization. Abderazak Besseghir, a French citizen of Algerian descent, said...
...writers refer to eliot spitzer with comic-book-hero honorifics like "the Enforcer" or "Sheriff of Wall Street," it's worth remembering that when the New York State attorney general began his breakthrough investigation of Merrill Lynch in 2001, he wasn't sure what he was doing. A general suspicion about the veracity of investment bankers' advisories had prompted Spitzer to launch a bit of a fishing expedition into Merrill's records. It wasn't turning up much, however, until early 2002, when Eric Dinallo, Spitzer's top aide on the project, came into his office and showed...
MARCH 21 The Pope says the church's sex-abuse crisis casts "a dark shadow of suspicion" over all priests...