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Date: 18 December 2002
By Harvey Araton
Harvey Araton
Harvey Araton Sports of The Times column discusses negative media and fan attention garnered by Philadelphia 76ers guard Allen Iverson; photo (M)
Date: 19 December 2002
By Daniel J. Wakin
Daniel Wakin
Followers of Falun Gong spiritual movement in New York say authorities in Beijing have brought propaganda war against it to New York by planting defamatory articles in Chinese-language newspapers and waging campaign of harassment; say they have been subtly threatened; movement has filed suit against several newspapers; battle exists in other Chinese communities in US, but is most acute in New York, where movement's founder Li Hongzhi lives (M)
Date: 19 December 2002
By Pamela Licalzi O'Connell
Pamela O'Connell
Pamela LiCalzi O'Connell Online Diary column; online themed Advent calendars, which count down from Dec 1 to Christmas, are available at several sites; mirrorproject.com and pictureyourself.org offer users opportunity to participate in Web compilation of self-portraits; Yahoo, Lycos and Google issue year-end reports of top news stories based on number of search queries; some miscellaneous Web sites noted; drawing (M)
Date: 19 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
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Date: 19 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
EchoStar Communications Corp agrees to pay $1.07 billion to repurchase 10 percent stake from Vivendi Universal after scrapping plan to buy its satellite television rival DirecTV (S)
Date: 18 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Best Buy Co reduces its profit forecast to 5 cents lower per share than its previous estimate; its shares fall 5.5 percent; Circuit City Stores reports third-quarter loss; its shares fall 11 percent (S)
Date: 19 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
California Public Employees' Retirement System agrees to disclose returns on its private equity investments, step toward greater openness in evaluating financial performance of leveraged buyout and venture funds (S)
Date: 19 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
World Business Briefing: Germany: Business Confidencÿ
Date: 19 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Accpac International, unit of Comp4
Date: 18 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
World's biggest appliance maker Electrolux will lay off 5,091 workers, or 6.3 percent of its Swedish work force, in reaction to faltering demand for its products; graph of share price (S)