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...would certainly discourage me," says Ted Mandigo, director of TR Mandigo & Co., a hospitality consulting firm. "In the long term, I think it may trade at a discount to its peers because of the lack of control," he says...
Skeptics have long sniffed at the official Franco-Algerian version of how the monks were abducted and murdered. But Buchwalter's statement - given to investigating magistrate Marc Trévidic, who also happens to be overseeing the Pakistan case - blows the biggest hole yet in the idea that the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) killed the seven men. According to Buchwalter, an army intelligence official serving as military attaché to France's embassy in Algiers at the time of the killings, he was told by Algerian colleagues that the monks had died when an Algerian army helicopter patrolling an area...
...attack for months. In June, word leaked to the press that the investigating magistrates handling the case had all but abandoned the idea that al-Qaeda was behind the bombing. Lawyers representing families of the attack's French victims told reporters they'd received a briefing by Trévidic and fellow judge Yves Jannier in which they were told that Pakistani officials may have organized the strike. This new theory hinges on the change in France's government in 1995, a year after Paris signed a $1 billion deal to sell Agosta submarines to Pakistan. The cabinet of newly...
...massive hit: while Sony predicted it would only sell about 5,000 units a month, the Walkman sold upwards of 50,000 in the first two months. Sony wasn't the first company to introduce portable audio: the first-ever portable transistor radio, the index card-sized Regency TR-1, debuted in 1954. But the Walkman's unprecedented combination of portability (it ran on two AA batteries) and privacy (it featured a headphone jack but no external speaker) made it the ideal product for thousands of consumers looking for a compact portable stereo that they could take with them anywhere...
...TR: I said a long time ago that the reality of identifying and returning to their country of origin the X million of illegals who are here is a fantasy. We need to face up to the reality that Congress and Presidents since the mid-80s have failed to deal with the issue. Now is an opportunity to forge a bipartisan solution. We need to find some way to legalize their presence; not [by] granting them citizenship-we may put them at the end of the line-but not [by] sending them all back...