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SAN FRANCISCO – Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday’s session are Micron Technology Inc., VeriSign Inc. and Lawson Software Inc. After Thursday’s closing bell, Micron Technology Inc. (MU) reported a fourth-quarter profit that fell 54% from a year ago, but managed to top …

UNITED NATIONS – A key attraction for leaders from more than 170 countries attending next week’s U.N. summit is “face time” — that rare opportunity to look each other in the eye and talk about global hotspots from Nepal and central Africa to the Middle East. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (search) …

WASHINGTON – The No. 2 Republican in the Senate came to the defense of his colleague one day after Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (search) issued a statement insisting that he did not do anything wrong when he ordered trustees to sell his stock in his family’s company. “I have …