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Date: 21 August 2000
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant column on lagging price of Fox Entertainment Group shares, which have risen only 20 percent since November 1998, when News Corp spun off 20 percent of the unit; graph (M)
Date: 20 August 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Dozens of Democratic candidates from around country file into headquarters of party-run Democratic News Service during four days of Democratic National Convention to submit to interviews with television and radio stations back home; Republicans used their four days of media exposure to focus singly on Gov George W Bush, but Democrats chose to fragment their television moment; Dr Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania, says Gore campaign wants to keep local officials and candidates happy by giving them exposure they crave, perhaps even creating reverse coattail effect in process; photos (M)
Date: 20 August 2000
By Billy Collins
Billy Collins
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Date: 21 August 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Warner Brothers, producers of Bull, TNT's new series about Wall Street, appends a disclaimer to a episode in which a reporter for Financial Times is depicted engaging in unethical conduct; this satisfies Financial Times, which gave permission for use of its image in the series so long as it was not denigrated thereby; photo (M)
Date: 20 August 2000
By Susan Sachs
Susan Sachs
Continuing bitter confrontation between Iran's hard-line clerics and liberal writers discussed in light of latest arrest; photo of Ibrahim Nabavi, caricaturist and creator of fictional Mullah Nasreddin who has been sent to prison without trial (M)
Date: 21 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Jacques Nasser, chief executive of Ford Motor Co, is making a television commercial to address Ford's handling of a tire recall affecting the Explorer, its sport utility vehicle (S)
Date: 20 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Toys 'R' US Inc of Paramus, NJ, reports 75 percent drop in fiscal second-quarter profit, to $3 million; expects online unit to break even in fourth quarter 2001 and turn profit in 2002; logo (S)
Date: 20 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Brazilian investors pump new money into equities during July for first time in four months; bonds had been favored investment vehicles (S)
Date: 21 August 2000
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Rescuers Plan to Enter Sunken Russian Sub Rescue teams were preparing a plan to use a ship's crane to rip a hatch off of the Russian submarine Kursk more than a week after it plunged to the bottom of the Barents Sea. They will then begin recovering the bodies of the 118 crew members and try to salvage the submarine's nuclear reactors. A1 In a Russian navy town, the tragedy of the sunken submarine has rattled residents and brought a hush to the streets. A6
Date: 20 August 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-18 Russian Navy Fears Submarine Crew Is Dead The Russian navy said that all 118 members of the crew of the wrecked nuclear submarine Kursk are likely dead, or will be before British and Norwegian rescue teams can make another effort to open a rear hatch. 1