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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (30305)	10/19/2003 11:16:32 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Report: Sony to cut up to 20,000 jobs By Allen Wan, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 9:39 PM ET Oct. 19, 2003 TOKYO (CBS.MW) -- Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony has decided to cut 15,000 to 20,000 jobs groupwide, or about 10 percent of its global workforce of 160,000 by the end of March 2006, according to a published report. FOR SNE Tokyo stocks rebound as brokers soar ahead of earnings Sony reportedly to shed 20,000 jobs or 10% workforce Sony gains, but other techs hurt by profit taking The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Monday that Sony also plans to end domestic production of cathode-ray tubes for television sets by the end of next year. Sony is considering cutting 1,500 to 2,000 jobs domestically on a parent-only basis, the report said. It'll also pull out of unprofitable and nonstrategic operations, which account for more than 10 percent of its more than 100 business areas, the report said, adding that Sony will reduce jobs by introducing an early retirement scheme as well as curbing hiring. The company will announce structural reform measures on Oct. 28.

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (30305)	10/20/2003 11:32:14 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

THE STOVEPIPE _____________________________ by SEYMOUR M. HERSH Issue of 2003-10-27 The New Yorker How conflicts between the Bush Administration and the intelligence community marred the reporting on Iraq’s weapons. newyorker.com <<...The point is not that the President and his senior aides were consciously lying. What was taking place was much more systematic—and potentially just as troublesome. Kenneth Pollack, a former National Security Council expert on Iraq, whose book “The Threatening Storm” generally supported the use of force to remove Saddam Hussein, told me that what the Bush people did was “dismantle the existing filtering process that for fifty years had been preventing the policymakers from getting bad information. They created stovepipes to get the information they wanted directly to the top leadership. Their position is that the professional bureaucracy is deliberately and maliciously keeping information from them. “They always had information to back up their public claims, but it was often very bad information,” Pollack continued. “They were forcing the intelligence community to defend its good information and good analysis so aggressively that the intelligence analysts didn’t have the time or the energy to go after the bad information.”...>>