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Carriers are also scaling back their schedules to avoid bankruptcy. American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, and United have cut their schedules by 20 percent...
Should we condemn students to mediocrity just to avoid the risk that they will fail a tougher challenge? That's what American public schools tend to do, argues Mary Catherine Swanson. Afraid of high dropout rates and low standardized test scores, many schools allow all but their top students to muddle through remedial and feel-good classes instead of preparing them for the rigors of college. No wonder so many parents want vouchers to send their kids to private schools...
...combined company will rival IBM in size and revenue, and theoretically it will leapfrog Dell in sales of PCs and midrange servers, the machines that act as the Internet's traffic cops. What is in doubt is whether Fiorina can put this heft to good use--and avoid the impact of any further downturn in consumer spending--by selling information-technology services along with hardware to corporations at a healthy profit. It's the hottest area of IT right now and will be for some time...
...Small Investor obeyed the wisdom of the day and stayed away so as to avoid being stampeded, they may not for long. And what was at least a Gray Monday could get blacker as the week goes on and selling begets pessimism and begets more selling. At the opening bell for Tuesday?s session it will only be a week since the financial world was blown up by some very determined men, and nobody knows yet how the globe, much less the global economy, will be affected...
...Israelis are as likely to rely on Palestinian car thieves or drug dealers, or even members of radical organizations who have been "turned" through blackmail or other measures. Counter-terrorism is by nature "dirty" warfare, and a government that forbids assassinations and instructs its intelligence agencies to avoid recruiting "unsavory sources" is at a distinct disadvantage...