FIDES. The Roman goddess Fides is the personification of an idea that in itself is secular: the idea of "confidence" (fides) and, especially (in a more derivative sense of fides), the "good faith" or...

Fides may refer to: Fides (mythology), In Roman mythology. Fides was the goddess of trust. Fides (reliability), A guide allowing estimated reliability calculation in...

THERE ARE MANY TAXPAYERS WHO after having received a Tax Office assessment have protested - normally to no effect - that the assessment is not bona fide. They believe the assessment was raised more for horse-trading purposes than for proper assessment purposes. I am...

The future of the FIDE world chess championships looks brighter. On Thursday FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and the Dutch businessman Bessel Kok signed a memorandum of understanding launching an Amsterdam-based company called Global Chess BV to manage the championships and other chess ventures in...

Medtronic Inc. is stopping distribution of wires that connect some of its defibrillators to patients' hearts after learning they may have contributed to five deaths.Medtronic shares dropped more than 12 percent by midday Monday after the disclosure.A defibrillator monitors a patient's heartbeat; if it senses...

Medtronic Inc. is stopping distribution of wires that connect some of its defibrillators to patients' hearts after learning they may have contributed to five deaths.Medtronic shares dropped more than 12 percent by midday Monday after the disclosure.A defibrillator monitors a patient's heartbeat; if it senses...