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...Napoleon sulked in Cairo. In France, his beloved, highly sexed wife, Josephine, was conducting an appallingly public affair with a young lieutenant named Hippolyte Charles. It was the talk of the army. Cuckolded, Napoleon fretted and gnashed his teeth. He sounded curiously helpless. "It's a sad situation," he wrote to his brother, "to have so many conflicting sentiments about a single person in one's heart...
...members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace reached a tentative agreement with aerospace giant Boeing over wages and benefits. The settlement, described by analysts as "generous" to the union, highlights both increasing competition for Boeing from the European aircraft consortium, Airbus, and a general corporate love affair with stock prices that appears to have pushed the issue of corporate costs into the background...
...This is not a student affair," said Frank X. Leonard '01. "It's a national affair in which students are interested...
...corporate shenanigans. In a complex scheme with a brutishly simple result, Sidanko's most prodigious subsidiary was declared bankrupt and sold for a song to a rival, the Tyumen Oil Co. (TNK). BP Amoco vehemently objected and in late December reached a tentative settlement with TNK. But the Sidanko affair is still cited in expatriate business circles as a symbol of the hurdles foreigners face in Russia...
...houses are not without their defenders, like West Coast private dealer Aaron Shraybman, who says he is "saddened" by the affair and points out that "it's not like they tried to do something and cover it up. I don't think the Justice Department understands the breadth and scope of what the business is. They are just taking the law to its hardest form." Either way, the year 2000 opens a rocky time for art auctioneers, and it bids fair to let air out of, as well as into, their trade...