Shuttling between the opposing camps is Kate Sullivan, a young lawyer with a devious mind and good legs: she represents the wire-and-cable company, but she and Larry are manipulative soul mates, and in the course of negotiations their enthusiastic gamesmanship evolves into a weird kind of courtship.

NEWYORKER: Other People��s Money

The U.S. Attorney's Office now blames six ex-Anicom executives for sinking the former Rosemont, Ill. distributor of cable, wire, networking and fiber-optic parts.

FORBES: Follow-Through

Whether it's phone wire used for dial-up and digital subscriber lines (DSL), or the coaxial cables that carry cable modem connections, these connections are a bottleneck between the carrier's big pipes and your bandwidth-starved computer.

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