Why Good Hearts Must Go Public
Date: 19 April 2002
By Mariane Pearl
Mariane Pearl
Op-Ed article by Mariane Pearl, whose journalist husband Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and killed by fundamentalists in Pakistan in early 2002; says after his capture many of her Pakistani neighbors shut their windows and doors to her, perhaps out of fear; says she was comforted by individual Pakistanis and Muslims who showed courage and graciousness during her five-week ordeal, as she waited for her husband's return; says when she finally had to acknowledge his 'bloody murder,' she remained in Pakistan to show defiance against fear, and it was then that she finally heard from majority in Pakistan as it abandoned its silence and wrote to her; agrees with one letter-writer who called Pearl's murders 'a crime against the people of Pakistan'; asks people of Pakistan to act on sentiments they expressed in their letters and build memorial for Daniel Pearl in Karachi; drawing (M)
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States Are Told to Keep Detainee Information Secret
Date: 19 April 2002
By Danny Hakim
Danny Hakim
Bush administration orders state and local officials not to release information about immigration detainees even as government loses crucial related battle in federal appeals court; federal appeals court in Cincinnati says government must release transcripts of past immigration court hearings in case of Rabih Haddad, detainee and co-founder of Muslim charity whose assets government has frozen; Michigan newspapers have sued to open hearing of Haddad, native of Lebanon who lives in Ann Arbor; in Haddad's case, government will now have to appeal to Supreme Court to withhold transcripts of past hearings (M)
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TRW REBUFFS NORTHROP GRUMMAN'S OFFER
Date: 18 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
TRW rejects Northrop Grumman's $12.2 billion takeover offer and says it will start providing confidential information to other interested bidders (S)
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SLOWDOWN IN TRADING HURTS BANK OF NEW YORK PROFIT
Date: 18 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bank of New York Co says first-quarter profit fell 5.7 percent; net income was $362 million compared with $384 million year earlier; net interest income after taxes fell to $425 million from $441 million (S)
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BOEING SUSTAINS A QUARTERLY LOSS, THE FIRST IN 4 YEARS
Date: 18 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Boeing Co reports first-quarter loss of $1.25 billion compared with net income of $1.24 billion year earlier; loss is first in more than four years; sales rose 4 percent, to $13.8 billion (S)
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SALES OF CHOLESTEROL PILL HELP PFIZER'S PROFIT GROW
Date: 18 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pfizer Inc says first-quarter profit rose 22 percent, but expects growth to slow in second quarter; net income rose to $2.36 billion from $1.93 billion year earlier; revenue rose 11 percent, to $8.42 billion from $7.58 billion (S)
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SBC AND ECHOSTAR AGREE TO SELL EACH OTHER'S SERVICES
Date: 18 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SBC Communications, which sells local telephone service in Midwest and West, and EchoStar Communications, cable TV provider, agree to sell each other's services to compete with cable TV; financial terms undisclosed; SBC will sell EchoStar's Dish network in its 13-state region starting in May; EchoStar will sell SBC's high-speed Internet access (S)
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MATTEL REPORTS FIRST-QUARTER LOSS OF $256 MILLION
Date: 19 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Mattel Inc says first-quarter loss widened to $256.2 million from $34 million year earlier; sales rose to $742 million from $715.2 million (S)
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DELPHI LINKS JOB CUTS TO A LOSS IN THE FIRST QUARTER
Date: 18 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Delphi Corp, auto parts maker, is eliminating 6,100 jobs, incurring costs that led to first-quarter loss of $51 million, compared with loss of $429 million year earlier; sales rose 2.3 percent, to $6.69 billion (S)
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Z-TEL TECHNOLOGIES LAYS OFF 350 AS IT CLOSES AN OFFICE
Date: 19 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Z-Tel Technologies lays off about 350 employees, or 27 percent of its staff, as it closes customer service center in Minot, ND; will move customer service to office in Atmore, Ala (S)
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