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...questioning whether it was legal for the Russian forces to use gas in ending the Moscow theater standoff, people should question the legality of the Chechen terrorists' action. A free world should not care what was used to get rid of a bunch of assassins and save the vast majority of nearly 800 hostages, though some 130 of those hostages were killed. Fighting terrorism requires guts and the use of every possible means. Terrorism is a disease that has to be attacked from every conceivable angle. JOSE LUIS BELMAR Stockholm...
Fiorina's supporters think HP in the middle will be a hit show. The rationale for acquiring Compaq has not changed, they argue. By buying Compaq's vast product portfolio, R.-and-D. muscle, direct-sales channel and 34,000 tech-service pros, HP could thwart IBM and Dell. "Analysts are waiting for us to put points on the scoreboard," says Michael Winkler, Fiorina's executive vice president for operations. (Fiorina declined to be interviewed...
Kamchatka's economy has collapsed in the wake of perestroika, as subsidies from the central government have dried up. Corruption is rampant, with poachers depleting the region's vast fisheries. Nature preserves are under threat from mining and energy projects. Electricity is frequently shut down, even during the brutal winters. As one park ranger noted while guiding us through the thermal springs of the peninsula's Valley of Geysers, "This is the only place in Kamchatka where they can't cut off your hot water...
...trekking up steep ice fields encrusted with ash. Soon it poured again. We crossed paths with a group of drenched Austrians. Only upon our return to Petropavlovsk did we discover that we had hiked seven hours through a 50-m.p.h. hurricane. Nonetheless, the spectacle was worth the effort: a vast crater licked by glaciers, steaming vents encrusted with yellow sulfur crystals, sputtering mudholes and a turquoise acidic lake...
...with $35 billion in annual revenues--into an even more pervasive presence in corporations. Her job is to persuade big customers to do one-stop shopping at IBM, to make it as dominant in high-level-strategy consulting as it is today in maintenance and outsourcing. By tapping the vast Rolodex and industry expertise of PWC, Rometty is counting on IBM to help devise a client's strategy, redesign such key business processes as human resources and finance, and in many cases run those departments and their sophisticated software, as IBM already does for United Technologies' procurement and Nextel...