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...attend the meetings. But his son Muthanna--who is thought to be an important link between the nationalist and religious strains of the insurgency--did. In August 2004, the son was arrested after his car scanned positive for explosives residue. But he was quickly released, a retired DIA analyst says, under pressure from Iraq's government, to keep channels open to his father. "It would be difficult to lure Harith into the tent if Muthanna were in jail," says the former officer...
...Independence Air, may soon join them. Couple that with two other flyers, United and U.S. Airways, which have been languishing in Chapter 11 for years and you get a picture of an industry in crisis. Since 2000 the airlines have destroyed $34 billion in shareholder wealth, according to industry analyst Vaughn Cordle, and are on track to lose another $6 billion this year...
...stock products that don't just make you feel nice (Cucumber Melon bubble bath) but also make you look better (Goldie nail lacquer)--and in the process create a new sort of one-stop shop with a consumer-friendly atmosphere. "What they have recognized," says Donald Trott, specialty-retail analyst at stock-research outfit Jefferies & Co., "is that they have to take it out of the arena of competing with Procter & Gamble...
...aimed at tweens. Bath & Body Works has bought other brands outright. In late 2003 the company snapped up the C.O. Bigelow name and this June swallowed Slatkin & Co., a home-fragrances firm. "The consumer may want quality, but it's also about newness," says John D. Morris, a retail analyst at Harris Nesbitt. "They're rejuvenating the product launch cycle"--a pipeline that had languished pre-Fiske. Add in a catalog business (set to launch this fall), a website overhaul to let consumers buy direct (due in mid-October) and the possibility of expanding certain brands overseas, and Fiske...
...within their reach. What's more, all 5,800 candidates for the 249 parliamentary seats and 420 provincial council posts are running as independent individuals. Without the backing of political parties, the legislators will lack the clout that might come from working in unison, fears Joanna Nathan, senior Afghanistan analyst for the International Crisis Group (ICG), an international think tank dedicated to preventing conflict. "That's going to make for a horribly weak and paralyzed body unable to accomplish anything...