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...Iraqi offers have mounted, U.S. war rhetoric has become only fiercer—exactly the opposite of what one would expect if Bush truly desired a diplomatic solution. In early August, an Iraqi envoy invited U.N. officials to Baghdad to discuss the resumption of weapons inspections. Within hours, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other White House hawks raced each other to the television cameras to promise that the U.S. would invade Iraq whether or not U.N. inspections were allowed to resume. Even as Iraq agreed on Tuesday to the unconditional readmission of weapons inspectors...
...aging McDonald's outlets may get the bulldozer treatment, and 6,000 others could be given a face-lift. But rebuilding the company's formerly sizzling burger business in the U.S., which accounts for half its $40 billion in global sales, will be much more difficult. In July and August, revenues at its U.S. stores open for at least 12 months shrank 2.7% from the year before. The company has suffered declining profits for six of the past seven quarters and just lowered its earnings expectations for 2002. Wall Street's indigestion over the news pushed McDonald's once dependable...
...August 2001, a power outage caused the council’s central computer to reboot and send out thousands of e-mail messages confirming votes that students had cast in the previous year’s council elections...
...that's a prediction they have been making for months, and it has yet to happen. "The President really wants it," says a top official, "but it's not that easy to do." The White House tried to give Evans a big platform at its economic conference in August, but it didn't work, in part because Evans' office is not a natural place from which to drive economic policy. What would give him sway among elites, Wall Street and the media is the one thing Evans will not leverage: his friendship with the President. On the phone with Bush...
...Indonesia. Last year a second assassination scheme--it involved detonating a bomb at a meeting of Megawati and other ruling party leaders--fizzled when the designated bomber lost his leg and was arrested after the bomb he was carrying blew up prematurely near the Atrium Mall in Jakarta in August...