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...auspicious time for Plattner's prodigy to step up to the plate. The $40 billion business-software industry is heading for a shakeout, and SAP has to protect its dominant 35% market share. Agassi's vision? "Training people on computer systems is stupid," he says. "We need to train the systems to work with people." If he can turn that idea into a profitable reality, the punch-card kid might find himself captaining the team. --By Chris Taylor/San Francisco
...Heid, whose reports had prompted the Mariners to sign outfielder Ichiro Suzuki and relief pitcher Kazuhiro Sasaki, has been tracking Matsui for six years. His scouting report: "Extremely strong arm. Outstanding range, comparable to Omar Vizquel's. Fast as a bullet train." Suzuki, the quickest player in the American League, says Matsui is even quicker than...
...hardest part of the day for the 230 boys at the Merkaz Hatorah Jewish high school in Gagny, a middle-class suburb of Paris, had always been getting there. During the train ride from home, the boys replaced their yarmulkes with baseball caps but were still regularly hassled by other French teenagers, usually of Arab or North African descent, who called them "sales juifs" ("dirty Jews"). Once the boys made it to the school, a bright steel-and-glass building surrounded by trees and tidy homes, they felt safe. No longer. About 3 a.m. on Saturday Nov. 15, the school...
...basic reasoning behind the stability pact was this: only if each and all maintain fiscal discipline will inflation and devaluation be kept at bay. Now that the pact is practically dead, each and all will feel free to do as they please. Think about European monetary union as a train made up of 12 cars, which represent the national economies. Unless all of them move at the same speed, the train will derail. But the problem goes deeper still. The European Union is embroiled in a tortuous constitution-making process that brought its Foreign Ministers to Naples late last week...
...Cole] has elected to take the year off to train for the U.S. Olympic trials, which are next July, because he has a very strong chance at the mile event,” co-captain Kemi George said. “He can devote a lot more time and energy to swimming in terms of recovering between practices. The absence of school and school work makes that easier...