Word: processing
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...also goes right to the heart of Merrill's reluctance to get into the online business in the first place: their brokers. "Merrill is known for its brokers -- it's got a whole army of 15,000 of them that are very sensitive about getting cut out of the process," says Baumohl. "It's a huge political problem within the company." But chairman David H. Komansky didn't sound that worried -- or sympathetic. The brokers "will still do very well," he said, "so long as they are willing to provide value-added service to their client...
...will need to display that hidden side if Israelis are to unite behind a renewed peace process. Washington, eager for a foreign policy success before Clinton leaves office, especially against the grim backdrop of Kosovo, will urge the parties to speed toward new agreements. Barak wants agreements too, but on his terms. He has pledged to withdraw Israeli forces from south Lebanon within a year, but he rejects the notion of a unilateral pullout. He is ready to do a deal with Syria on returning the Golan Heights but hangs tough on demilitarization and full normalization of ties...
...about granting the Palestinians justice but about promoting our own interests." Even for Rabin, the dry, old combatant who could hardly be accused of excessive emotion, the negotiations weren't just about that. While he acted principally out of Israel's interest, Rabin had concluded that the peace process was also a moral imperative. But he was at the end of a long career, confident in his vision and prepared to take risks to achieve it. Cocky though his protege may be, Barak is just starting...
...process that screenwriter Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and director Roger Michell (Persuasion) allow to develop confidently, digressively. William, for example, finds himself obliged to pretend he's a journalist for a fox-hunting magazine interviewing all those connected with Anna's latest release, a horseless sci-fi epic, at a press junket. On another occasion, he's mistaken for the room-service waiter and patronized by her movie-star boyfriend (a funny, uncredited Alec Baldwin, trying hard for noblesse oblige and delightfully missing the note...
...SPIN When CD players first arrived in 1982, audiophiles complained that the tinny digital recordings lacked the warmth of analog LPs. Now Super Audio CD, a new format co-created by Sony and Philips, uses a simplified digitization process to put the subtlety of LP sound on clear, hiss-free compact discs. SACD debuts this month in Japan, and will go on sale in the U.S. in the fall. The true test? Whether a generation raised on Discman can tell the difference...