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Merging the buccaneering MCI culture with tradition-bound BT could prove tricky. To preserve MCI's independent spirit, Roberts will serve as co-chairman with BT chief Iain Vallance and remain at MCI headquarters in Washington.
Yet last week's good news traveled in a sort of endless loop around the stock price, which remained locked at about $130. If, as F. Scott Fitzgerald famously remarked, there are no second acts in American lives, they are even rarer in American business recoveries. Act One, of course...
But the next step--letting computer systems actually pilot the car--is the big one. Getting in and out of the fast lanes is always tricky even today. It will be even trickier when you have to change lanes and hand off control to the computer at the same time...
Enter on big, rough wheels the state of California, which helped pioneer the tricky practice of democracy through referendum. This year's most controversial example is Proposition 215. It would permit patients with cancer, aids, glaucoma, arthritis and other serious illnesses to grow, possess and use marijuana. It would also...
Indonesia immediately decried the choice of Ramos-Horta. In 1975, at the age of 25, the former newsman became "foreign minister" of a government formed by the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, or Fretilin, which slaughtered card-holding members of four other political parties following Portugal's withdrawal...