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...North End empire—attracts a more confident crowd. Panino is for couples secure enough to forgo the schmaltz—that never as charming as it sounds combination of Johnny Ten-Bucks-An-Hour on the piano and velvet banquettes; couples smart enough to avoid the twin enemies of romance: stuffiness and predictability; couples honest enough to admit what they really want—waiters who speak Italian, great food inspired by the Amalfi Coast, serious wine, worn-in comfort and a picture of Joe Pesci on the wall, looking very satisfied...
With projected expenses likely to exceed revenues by the year 2005, FAS is going to have to utilize all available resources to avoid deficit spending, Associate Dean for Finance Cheryl Hoffman-Bray said at yesterday’s meeting...
...based in craggy mountains along the Turkey-Iraq border. To contain them, Turkey is planning ahead in other ways, a senior Turkish official said: its military has won U.S. approval to establish 17 refugee camps--10 of them on Iraqi soil--as soon as war starts. Ankara wants to avoid a repeat of 1991, when a flood of 450,000 Kurdish refugees into Turkey was joined by armed insurgents who went on to reignite a civil war. Turkish-controlled camps within Iraq would help prevent that from happening. In the meantime, the Turks have stepped up their military presence...
...executives, say--aren't willing to accept. Congress, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ all answered calls for reform last year with their respective rule changes. The most substantial changes involve audit committees and outside directors (those without significant financial or family relationships to a company). To help avoid an Enron-like scenario, in which an audit committee doesn't adequately vet auditors' reports, the chairman of that committee must be a financial expert: either a CFO of a public company or someone who has audited one. Three powerful board committees--audit, compensation and nominating (which finds new directors...
...then, was the second bomber?the killer responsible for the smaller bomb at Paddy's? Strangely, he has also been identified as "Iqbal," though police have dubbed him "Jim" to avoid confusion. Based on eyewitness testimony from a waitress at the bar, investigators had previously theorized that the Paddy's bomb went off prematurely and was not a true suicide attack. Four months into the investigation they have revised their opinions: "All forensic evidence now points strongly to the Paddy's bomb having been a suicide," the source says...