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Kids knew this stuff was funny. Connoisseurs now know it was great. But to studio heads Jack and Harry Warner, the work of Chuck & Co. was just filler. Jones swore that the Warners believed his unit was making Mickey Mouse cartoons--"and when they found out we didn't, they shut it down." This was in 1962; after a quarter-century directing terrific, profitable, studio-defining films, Jones was earning all of $37,500 a year...
GEORGIA Front Line Moves The war against terrorism moved into the volatile Trans-caucasus region as five U.S. military advisers arrived in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The five are the advance guard of a unit that could number up to 200 to train Georgian troops to counter possible terrorist activity in the mountainous Pankisi Gorge area. Moscow reacted cautiously, with Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov saying the Americans "could further aggravate the situation in the region...
...cell phones were reported stolen in the first eight months of last year, the police seem equally helpless to prevent the crimes. "How can you stop the theft of something that you can hide in the palm of your hand?" asks Miroslav Moulik, head of Prague 1's police unit specializing in pickpocket crime...
HPRE purchased an additional 120-unit Cambridgeport facility in December. The complex was formerly owned by the Polaroid Company, and is expected to be available for Harvard-affiliated residential...
...shoppers were making DVD players the electronics gift of choice, Britain's radio broadcasters tried an experiment. They subsidized the sale of 300 digital radios at eight locations across the country at the wallet-friendly price of ?99 (about $142), a savings of at least $210 over the cheapest unit now available. They sold out in 30 minutes. Alba, the U.K.'s largest consumer-electronics manufacturer, got the message. It's bringing out a range of digital radios this fall priced from about $140 to around $285 under its mass-market brand, Goodmans...