ONE OF THE MANY troubling facts from last week's deadly shooting at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is that this tragedy could happen again, anywhere. The shooting, which left 32 dead on the campus, was the worst such attack in ONE OF...
Panic! At The Disco walked away with the top honor at last night's 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, winning the coveted Video of the Year trophy for their smash single, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies." First-time nominees, the Decaydance/ Fueled By Ramen group, was the only new artist to...
***** Correction: An April 23 editorial, "Opportunity Arises Out of School Tragedy,'' misidentified the Columbine High School massacre as the second-worst U.S. school shooting. A 1966 shooting at the University of Texas claimed more lives. At ***** Correction: An April...
The article focuses on stock options and the Alternative Minimum Tax AMT. It says that some employees who exercised stock options have found that they have to pay the AMT even though the stock price for the shares they bought have fallen. To understand the concept for...
The tragedies of September 11, 2001 undoubtedly served as a wake-up call for people all over the world. Suddenly, everyone was forced to examine the personal and professional preparedness for catastrophe. Although the thousands of personal tragedies can never be totally redressed, one can marvel at how many business operations...
On Sept. 24, members of the construction industry gathered at the Willow Ridge Country Club in Harrison, N.Y., for an all-day golf and tennis outing sponsored by Professional Women in Construction. The attendees came to connect with their peers and restore a semblance of normalcy in the wake of the...
The tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001, raised public awareness of the potential of unforeseen emergency events to levels never before seen. As a result, building structures and systems are being reviewed for weaknesses and deficiencies that would impair th The tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001, raised...
Commercial-mortgage lenders said their operations were starting to return to normal activity last week following the tragedy at the World Trade Center, although they remained wary of offering firm spreads on new financings. Commercial-mortgage lenders said their operations were starting to return to...
LONDON-London's insurance and risk management community was in a state of shock and mourning last week following the tragedy in the United States. As a financial and insurance center closely linked to its counterparts in the United States, the Lon LONDON-London's insurance and...
The Rape of Lucretia is a rule-breaker. Most operas accommodate big, active-voice emotions - passion, rage, longing, bloodlust - but in this work composer Benjamin Britten offers a cry of despair, using a tragedy from Roman history to explore his d The Rape of...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In his first interview about the E2 nightclub tragedy in Chicago, Johnnie L. Cochran today told NPR's Tavis Smiley he is representing at least seven of the families who lost loved ones at the club early Monday morniLOS ANGELES, Feb. 20 /U.S. Newswire/...