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...then Citigroup kicks things off Monday morning by reporting earnings of 74 cents a share, topping not only expectations but last year's results. Microsoft, reporting for real this week, will be expected to do again what it did last week - make everybody feel good about dominant tech companies - except this time IBM and Intel, and maybe even Apple, will be expected to help...
Howard Boggess, 64, a Crow historian, attended one of these parlays. Boggess, who is legally blind but can read and write with high-tech assistance, describes hearing a clash of many tongues. An Arapahoe elder offered a short prayer and invoked the valley's "sacredness." The Anschutz executives, as Boggess recalls, invoked their legal rights and complained about media coverage. The Indians too were worried about coverage because they feared revealing too much about their cherished valley. But when their letters to Denver and Washington went unanswered, they went public...
...killed 17 American sailors on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, FBI agents assigned to the case touched down in the port city of Aden--and started to wait. For several hours the agents sat on their plane while the Yemenis searched through their luggage, itemizing every piece of high-tech equipment the gumshoes were bringing in. It was downhill from there. When they finally arrived at the Hotel Movenpick, where they would bunk three or four sweaty bodies to a room, they realized nobody had enough cash. They had taken off so fast few had got to the bank...
...also no good if you can't burn a complete CD. My Roxio-made discs inevitably gave up and ejected themselves around track 12 or so, claiming lack of memory. After I spent several hours on the phone with them, Roxio's tech support sent me some updated software. Even that did not halt the alarming proliferation of coasters...
Wednesday, the President will meet with high-tech leaders to talk about how he can win passage of permanent trade authority in Congress. Have you started nodding off yet? Or are you pounding your fist? Discussions of trade authority tend to either make the lids heavy (don?t talk about it while operating a belt sander) or enrage those who think opening foreign markets means losing American jobs...