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DIED. William Woo, 69, courtly, aggressive journalist who in 1986 became the first Asian American to lead a major U.S. newspaper when he was named editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; of colorectal cancer; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...former Yale admissions dean says the school accepted an ex-Taliban official because it didn’t want to see Harvard woo the Afghani applicant to Cambridge...
...feel like you’ve heard some of the patter and pop-culture references of “Slevin” before. Director Paul McGuigan and writer Jason Smilovic owe the larger part of their souls to Guy Ritchie (for flashback sequences with crazy lens shading), John Woo (for slow-motion fight scenes), and Quentin Tarantino (for the entire script and plot...
Sometime in the next few years, Mexico will pass Canada as the U.S.'s top trading partner. Hispanics have overtaken African Americans as the country's largest minority, the swing vote to woo, the constituency to grab. If Presidents George W. Bush and Vicente Fox manage to solve the problems of two countries that need each other but don't completely trust each other, the American Century could give way to the Century of the Americas and the border might as well have disappeared altogether...
...PLEADED GUILTY. SUN WOO LEE, YEONGHO KANG and YOUNG WOO LEE, executives at South Korea's Samsung Electronics; to their role in fixing prices for DRAM electronic chips; in San Francisco. The U.S. Justice Department charges that from 1999 to 2002 Samsung and three other companies colluded to set artificially high prices for the chips, used in computers and mobile phones. The three were sentenced to prison terms of up to eight months and will pay fines of $250,000 each. The ongoing investigation has resulted in more than $731 million in criminal fines...