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...signing of the START II treaty by pronouncing it the "document of the century." He then seized the hand of George ("my friend") Bush and began squeezing as if he were trying to wring out a wet dishrag. The gesture was an appropriate one: increasingly beleaguered by a devilish array of domestic problems, the Russian President must twist every drop of prestige he can from his foreign triumphs. Yet not even the acclaim of history's most extensive cutback in nuclear missiles could compensate for an economy tailspinning into chaos. According to the latest figures, Russian productivity plummeted...
MOGADISHU, NO STRANGER TO THE POP-POP OF ISOlated rifle fire, suddenly shook from the thunderous roar of a full-scale military assault. For 20 seemingly endless minutes, U.S. forces directed a massive array of firepower from AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters, M1A1 Abrams tanks and amphibious assault vehicles, all aimed at two arsenals controlled by warlord General Mohammed Farrah Aidid in the Somali capital's northwest. The offensive was ostensibly in retaliation for sniper fire at U.S. troops, but the blazing-gun approach carried a clear warning to Somalia's increasingly bold gunmen that they continue to lurk...
...mighty have fallen. While most of the industry is enjoying a renaissance, the world's largest computer company is being overwhelmed by an array of problems in one market after another. Its mainframe business, the core of the company, is being undermined by microchip miracles that make today's low-cost desktops as powerful as yesterday's closetfuls. Its lead in personal computers has evaporated. Its supremacy in computer chips is a mere memory. In software, upstart companies that didn't exist a little more than a decade ago are running rings around the 78-year-old behemoth. And even...
...TURN ON A pfennig? Germany's tried to last week, as domestic and international criticism swelled in response to the recent fire bombing in Molln that left a Turkish woman, her niece and granddaughter dead. Police moved swiftly, nabbing two suspects in the case, while government officials promised an array of moves designed to end the violence against foreigners. Among the initiatives are plans to expand surveillance and to ban extremist groups and even the racist music used to spread the xenophobic message. After two years in which the radicals claimed 3,400 attacks, Bonn is battered by charges that...
...union handout included an array of financialinformation that described Harvard as "aprosperous and thriving university...