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...least that's what investors seem to think. Tobacco stocks fell Friday, the day of the deal. But it was mere profit taking after a two-week run-up in which shares of Philip Morris, the No. 1 tobacco company, jumped 9%, reaching a new high on Thursday, while No. 2 RJR rose 14%. Tobacco stocks have sold at a discount, compared with other packaged-goods company shares, because of the legal uncertainties. Many analysts expect the stocks to keep on chugging once Wall Street can reliably calculate the settlement costs. "As uncertainty is removed, the stocks move up," says...
...mere prospect of Le Pen's forces' grabbing a share of real power is enough to make any true democrat shudder. A former paratrooper who has been accused of torturing prisoners during the Algerian war in 1957, Le Pen raised his party's support from less than 1% in 1981 to its current 15% by exploiting public fears of France's 4 million immigrants, preaching racial inequality and dispensing thinly disguised anti-Semitism (he has dismissed the Holocaust as a "detail of history"). With unemployment at 12.8%, Le Pen is winning support for his calls to expel immigrants and give...
Daikatana also features a pair of talking characters who act as allies to the human player--a bold departure from standard-issue 3-D carnage that Romero hopes will boost emotional involvement and, eventually, help turn mere games into immersive dramas. "The Internet is sucking people away from TV like crazy," he says, anticipating the day when computer users will tune in to the ION Website as they used to tune in to prime-time TV shows. "Every week the latest Daikatana episode would be up on our site at, say, Friday at 9 p.m.," he says. "It could have...
...teacher." In Deuteronomy (6: 7) children and students mean the same thing. The rabbinical literature of the Pirke Avot lists 48 ways to be an ideal teacher. One must have an understanding heart and a sense of awe at the mystery of life and of other human beings. The mere act of teaching implies that one wishes the world well...
...appeal, despite the fact that his defense cost taxpayers $10 million. If that doesn?t float, other issues under consideration as grounds for appeal include Judge Richard Matsch's ban on the defense theory that foreign terrorists were at the heart of the bombing in which McVeigh was a mere pawn and the restriction on using the FBI Inspector General's scathing report on the FBI crime lab. McVeigh's lawyers have until July 7 to file motions asking for a new trial, but that is merely the beginning of a long appeals process that likely will take this case...