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From the very start, the mission seemed to have been somewhat jinxed. The launch, postponed and rescheduled five times, was even delayed during the final countdown when a cargo ship steamed into the area of the Atlantic Ocean where the booster rocket was expected to fall. The mission's thorniest problems, however, began the day following takeoff, 15 hours after the successful launch of a Canadian-owned communications satellite. The difficulty arose when the crew deployed a second satellite, a LEASAT communications instrument under lease to the Navy and insured for $85 million. The 20-ft.-long, 7½-ton cylinder...
Joann Sfar, much like the feline star of his most popular comic, always seems to land on his feet. The laid-back French artist, 33, regularly confronts three of the thorniest issues of the day--politics, religion and cultural conflict--but uses a deceptively light touch that results in stories that are thoughtful, charming and hands-down funny...
...once backed him by large majorities but now favor Kerry at a rate of more than 5 to 4. The President faces a similar challenge with males, who broke 5 to 4 for Bush in 2000 but are evenly splitting their tickets now. All of which points to the thorniest number for Bush in TIME's poll: 43.7% That's the percentage of people who believe he deserves to be re-elected, a figure that pollsters say often tracks a candidate's ultimate showing at the ballot...
...compensation committees of public companies must now be composed of independent directors, reducing the chances for cronyism. There's legal basis for forcing executives to give back bonuses when accounting fraud is proved. Mutual-fund fees are coming down. And the Grasso flap is riveting attention on the thorniest issue of them all, one that seems unlikely to be resolved in a definitive way: Just how much is a CEO worth...
...That sounds vague. It is, and deliberately so. When a joint committee of experts from Hong Kong and China wrote the document in the late 1980s, the clauses on democratic evolution were among the thorniest. The best the negotiators could produce were the vague formulations reproduced above. The Basic Law clearly offered Hong Kong the promise of direct elections. But it left the important questions?when and how?to years that seemed very distant back...