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...When the time came to decide whether Bush was going to cite the allegation, the CIA objected--and then relented. Two senior Administration officials tell TIME that in a January conversation with a key National Security Council (NSC) official just a few days before the speech, a top CIA analyst named Alan Foley objected to including the allegation in the speech. The NSC official in charge of vetting the sections on WMD, Special Assistant to the President Robert Joseph, denied through a spokesman that he said it was O.K. to use the line as long as it was sourced...
...that both the Times and the Wall Street Journal have launched initiatives to appeal to a broader national audience--initiatives that include such USA Today--esque features as weekend travel and leisure sections and color, color, color. (National newspapers also compete for advertisers with newsweekly magazines like TIME.) Media analysts, however, generally do not see these moves--or the Times's woes--affecting USA Today's business for good or bad. "I really view the market [for each paper] as very separate," says Doug Arthur, publishing analyst at Morgan Stanley. Says Calabrese: "Frankly, as they say, the New York Times...
...Kitty and Barney, while Wal-Mart has SpongeBob SquarePants and a line designed by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. The chains have been savvy in their marketing, particularly to Hispanics, who have surpassed African Americans as the largest minority group in the U.S. According to Susan Porjes, a retail analyst based in Honolulu, Hispanic parents spend a higher percentage of their income on children's clothing than other ethnic groups do. That helps explain why Target has licensed characters from the Nickelodeon show Dora the Explorer (whose title character is Latina) and why Kmart has signed the Mexican pop singer...
...shareholders of Munich truckmaker MAN and Sweden's Scania, in which VW already has a stake, about creating Europe's third-largest truckmaker (behind DaimlerChrysler and Volvo). "There are question marks over the strategic sense of a move into heavy trucks on the part of VW," says Commerzbank analyst Robert Ashton, adding that Pischetsrieder may actually be trying to sell off VW's own minuscule truck operation, which made just 19,000 vehicles last year, compared to DaimlerChrysler's 222,000. Then we'd have to mourn the passing of yet another VW icon: the microbus. Gunning...
...Underlying any action against the North is the risk that the rogue nation will do something crazy in response. Trying to stop ships and planes carrying hardware that represents one of the country's few sources of income could have "dangerous consequences," says Bermudez, the Jane's analyst. "What happens if the North Koreans open fire...