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INJURED. DICK EBERSOL, 57, chairman of NBC Sports; after a chartered plane carrying him and two of his sons, Teddy, 14, and Charlie, 21, crashed on takeoff; in Montrose, Colo. Teddy, Ebersol's youngest son with his wife, actress Susan St. James, was thrown from the jet and killed on impact when it landed on him. The pilot and a crew member were also killed. Charlie was hospitalized along with his father, whom he dragged from the plane to safety. Both are expected to recover...
...Barghouti a serious candidate, or has he simply thrown his hat in the ring as a bargaining chip to win his release? People close to Barghouti tell TIME he decided at the last minute to renege on a deal not to run, dismayed at failing to win promises from Abbas to nominate people from Barghouti's camp for top jobs in a new administration and to push Israel for his release. A senior U.S. State Department official tells TIME he believes that Barghouti wants to leverage his threat of running for his own interests. Since Abbas controls the apparatus...
...items, including gloves and negligees, were lifted by the U.S. By 2003, Chinese exports of those goods had leaped nearly 200% from their 2001 levels, while Sri Lanka's exports had dropped more than 50% and Bangladesh's had fallen 46%. If history repeats, millions of people could be thrown out of work in some of the world's poorest and most politically volatile countries--and in the richest nations as well. On Oct. 12 a coalition of U.S. textile manufacturers and labor groups, claiming that thousands of U.S. jobs might be lost, petitioned Washington to impose trade restrictions...
When Jeroen van der Veer was thrown into the top job at Royal Dutch Shell, in the midst of a major crisis following disclosures that the company had overstated oil reserves by more than 20%, he scribbled down three key issues to address with his colleagues: "Reserves, keep eye on the business, and culture/structure." But in the eight months since, Van der Veer, 57, has done a lot more than those jotted notes suggest. He has radically overhauled Shell's management and governance structure. After months of discussions with regulators and institutional investors, Shell announced in November the full merger...
...Thompson describes his first audition as the “biggest misunderstanding in the world.” Having been given his lines just that morning, his audition was ill-prepared and read cold. Thompson was angry and shocked after being informed his audition was terrible and being publicly thrown out of the room...