Why Are We Back in Vietnam?
Date: 26 October 2003
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich article considers media coverage of Iraq War and resentment of Bush administration as press reports deviate from White House script; sees similarities between press's current role in covering situation in Iraq and its importance thirty years ago in providing public with information about US embroilment in Vietnam; photo (L)
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Word for Word/Soft Touch; From Our Man in Moscow, In Praise of the Stalinist Future
Date: 26 October 2003
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
Word for Word column excerpts Walter Duranty's dispatches to The New York Times from Russia in 1930's; photo; historian Mark von Hagen, examining coverage at Times request, says Duranty's reporting was so flawed as to justify stripping him of Pulitzer Prize posthumously (M)
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Don't Tread on Us; Radical Islam Gains a Seductive New Voice
Date: 26 October 2003
By David Rohde
David Rohde
Broad and increasing influence of radical Islam on worldviews of millions of Muslims around world discussed; anti-American, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are conveyed with ease and authority via Internet and satellite television, which also allow political Islam to portray itself as strongest ideological counter to democracy and capitalism; photos; political Islam's growing voice suggests that US faces much more nebulous enemy in war on terrorism than movement of religious zealots (M)
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JUDGE APPROVES PURCHASE OF 6 LORAL SATELLITES
Date: 25 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Loral Space and Communications wins bankruptcy court approval to sell six North American telecommunications satellites for $1.1 billion to Intelsat (S)
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COURT APPROVES SALE OF UAL'S STAKE IN HOTWIRE.COM
Date: 25 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
UAL Corp wins approval in bankruptcy court to sell its stake in Internet travel site Hotwire.com to InterActive Corp and Hydrogen Properties Inc; says it expects to earn about $85 million from sale (S)
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MAXIM INTEGRATED BUYS PHILIPS PLANT IN SAN ANTONIO
Date: 25 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Maxim Integrated Products buys plant in San Antonio that manufactures semiconductor wafers from Royal Philips Electronics for $40 million (S)
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PRIMEDIA AGREES TO SELL ONLINE AD UNIT TO GOOGLE
Date: 25 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Primedia says it will sell its Sprinks online advertising division to Web search company Google (S)
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FORD AND FIRESTONE SETTLE 90 SUITS IN ROLLOVER CASES
Date: 25 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ford Motor Co and Bridgestone's Firestone unit say they have settled 90 lawsuits over rollovers of Ford Explorers in Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia (S)
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ALLETE, A UTILITY OWNER, TO SPIN OFF CAR AUCTION UNIT
Date: 25 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Allete, Minnesota-based utility owner, says it will spin off Adesa, used-car auction business that is its biggest and most profitable unit (S)
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AK STEEL REPORTS LOSS AND SAYS IT WILL CUT 475 JOBS
Date: 25 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
AK Steel Holding says it had third-quarter net loss of $277.5 million; sales fall 4.8 percent, to $1.06 billion (S)
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