Zimbabwe Arrests 4 Over News About Police
Date: 16 August 2001
By Rachel L. Swarns
Rachel Swarns
Authorities in Zimbabwe arrest three senior editors and one reporter from nation's only independent daily newspaper, The Daily News, one day after paper reports that militants used police cars during recent looting of white-owned farms; journalists are charged with publishing 'false news' and are eventually released but warned they may be called in for further questioning; arrests mark Zimbabwean government's latest effort to stifle independent news media, which have sharply criticized authorities for condoning political violence, disregarding its courts and encouraging invasion of white-owned farms (M)
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News Corp. Posts Quarterly Loss as Advertising Revenue Falls
Date: 17 August 2001
By Patrick McGeehan
Patrick McGeehan
News Corp reports net loss of $265 million in quarter, in contrast to net income of $71 million year earlier; operating profit was $145 million; chairman, Rupert Murdoch, expects operating profit to increase by about 20 percent in new fiscal year (M)
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CBS Executives Take a Journey To CNN Land
Date: 16 August 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
CBS News executives visit CNN's Atlanta headquarters as part of continuing discussions about possible news-gathering partnership (M)
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World Briefing | Africa: Zimbabwe: New Charges For 4 Journalists
Date: 17 August 2001
By Rachel L. Swarns (NYT)
Rachel Swarns
Zimbabwe police file new charges against four journalists day after court dismisses earlier charges (S)
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Documenting America, From Industrial Behemoth to Sweet Innocent
Date: 17 August 2001
By Margarett Loke
Margarett Loke
Margarett Loke reviews work of late American photojournalist Esther Bubley, at UBS Paine Webber Art Gallery; photo (M)
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In America; Hiding in Plain Sight
Date: 16 August 2001
By Bob Herbert
Bob Herbert
Bob Herbert Op-Ed column comments on makeovers for mayoral hopefuls in New York City; says Mark Green, Michael Bloomberg, Alan Hevesi and Fernando Ferrer are presenting themselves in ways they hope will improve their poll numbers, even when it is at odds with their previous personas; says they will emerge in sharper relief over next few weeks as debates are held, press coverage intensifies and television ads multiply (M)
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MASTERCARD INTENDS TO BECOME PRIVATE SHARE COMPANY
Date: 16 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
MasterCard International plans to issue tradable shares to banks around world that own it (S)
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AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS RECALLS HORMONE TABLETS
Date: 16 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
American Home Products recalls two batches of its best-selling hormone-replacement drug, Premarin, after tests show that some of tablets do not meet certain quality requirements; drugs failed to meet government quality-control standard during what is known as 'dissolution test' (S)
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CORNELL, A PRISON OPERATOR, TO LEASE BACK PROPERTY
Date: 16 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cornell Companies, which operates 70 prisons in 13 states and District of Columbia, has sold and agreed to lease back 11 of its properties, giving company $173 million to repay debts; company earned $2.13 million in its second quarter, down from $2.19 million year earlier; revenue rose 19 percent, to $65.7 million (S)
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P.& G. AND COKE SCALE BACK JOINT VENTURE
Date: 16 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Procter & Gamble Co and Coca-Cola Co scale back plans for joint venture to sell Minute Maid and Sunny Delight juices and Pringles potato chips after Coca-Cola balks at giving up its faster-growing lines; each company will keep its individual brands instead of contributing them to venture as announced in February (S)
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