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Date: 29 July 2003
By Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column says both Prime Min Tony Blair and Pres Bush politicized intelligence to sell war in Iraq; suggests reasons why Blair's approval ratings have plummeted while Bush's poll numbers have fallen back to prewar level but not suffered Blair-like collapse; says Bush has always received kid-gloves treatment from news media; says in America, style trumps substance; says third possibility, that must worry Bush administration, is that American people who gave Bush their trust in aftermath of Sept 11 desperately wanted to believe best about their president; says if that is all it was, Bush faces terrible reckoning (M)
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Occupation Detains 2 Iranians in Iraq
Date: 30 July 2003
Two Iranians claiming to be journalists are detained in Baghdad on suspicion of security violations; Iran says Saeed Abutaleb and Soheil Karimi are documentary filmmakers (S)
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Judge Warns Against Naming The Accuser Of Kobe Bryant
Date: 30 July 2003
By Adam Liptak
Adam Liptak
Colorado Judge Frederick W Gannett issues order threatening action against any media interest that publishes or broadcasts name of woman charging basketball star Kobe Bryant with rape; legal experts say order amounts to unconstitutional prior restraint (S)
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WILLIAMS TO SETTLE CHARGES OF INDEX MANIPULATION
Date: 30 July 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Williams Cos, natural gas pipelines operator, to pay $20 million civil penalty to settle Commodity Futures Trading Commission charges that company and its Williams Energy Marketing and Trading unit tried to manipulate natural gas price indexes from Jan through June 2002 by reporting false trading data to companies that compile indexes (S)
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PROVIDIAN FINANCIAL REPORTS A 57% DROP IN EARNINGS
Date: 29 July 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Providian Financial Corp says second-quarter net income dropped 57 percent from year earlier, to $39 million; net revenue decreased 27 percent to $521.1 million (S)
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CERBERUS DROPS OUT OF CLAYTON HOMES BIDDING
Date: 30 July 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Clayton Homes fall after investor group led by Cerberus Capital Management declines to challenge bid by Warren E Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc (S)
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GOLDMAN BUYS CALIFORNIA CONTRACT FROM ALLEGHENY
Date: 29 July 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Goldman Sachs Group agrees to pay $405 million for electricity supply contract that Allegheny Energy signed with California during state's energy crisis in 2000 and 2001 (S)
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EARNINGS AT DUPONT RISE 24% ON STRONG SALES
Date: 30 July 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
DuPont reports second-quarter net income rose to $675 million, up 24 percent from $543 million in 2002 quarter (S)
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NET INCOME AT CHESAPEAKE ENERGY MORE THAN TRIPLES
Date: 29 July 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Chesapeake Energy Corp says second-quarter net income more than tripled, to $82.2 million, from year earlier; revenue more than doubled, to $429.6 million (S)
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ENTERGY BLAMES COURT RULING FOR 15% DROP IN PROFIT
Date: 29 July 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Entergy Corp, utility owner, says second-quarter net income fell 15 percent after Texas court upheld ruling barring company from recovering some costs at River Bend nuclear plant; net income fell to $211.5 million, from $247.6 million year earlier (S)
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