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Last week a report most people will never read provided what will hopefully be the last words on a scandal that many people have already read too much about. The report was titled "Final Report of the Independent Counsel in Re: Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association." Although the Whitewater scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Beat: Catholics, Whitewater and Cinema | 3/26/2002 | See Source »

As sophisticated as U.S. business intelligence is, it lacks the government support that many other nations' multinationals can count on. The Chinese, French, Israeli and Japanese intelligence services are especially noted for gathering and sharing information useful to their country's firms. Last year two Chinese scientists working for LUCENT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleuths In Suits: Mission: Intelligence | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

At CeBIT, Logitech will also launch a foldable hard-case keyboard for pdas, called the TypeAway, that will compete with those sold by TARGUS and PALM. "Targus is a great product," says De Luca. "We made a mistake not to be interested in it." But Logitech is betting that it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Life: Typing On Cloth | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

WATCH IT When lunching with business associates in China, don't turn the chicken head. The local superstition says that if the bird looks at anyone but the host, the subject of its stare will be pink-slipped. This useful site is full of advice on etiquette in foreign lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Crawling: Guangzhou | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

Minichiello of Spin-off Advisors says carve-outs enable parent companies to establish a division's market value, a particularly useful exercise if they plan to bail out of it altogether in a few years. Nestlé insists that it has no plans to sever all ties to Alcon, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Urge To Demerge | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

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