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...then Under Secretary of State John Bolton calls Kim a "tyrannical dictator" whose people's lives are a "hellish nightmare." Pyongyang dubs Bolton a "bloodsucker" and "human scum...
...Bolton's Image Problem...
...your story on the controversy surrounding John Bolton, Bush's choice as ambassador to the U.N. [May 2]: Does the U.S. really want a contender for worst boss to represent it to the rest of the world? A former colleague called him a "kiss-up, kickdown sort of guy." Too many of us know the type. All of us should feel the injustice every time that sort of person is rewarded. The U.S. has an image problem in much of the world. We're seen as out of control, arrogant and a bully. Yet the Administration wants...
That's apparently sufficient for now. Despite the troubles of its flagship label, and growing competition from giant mass marketers like Procter & Gamble and Avon, Lauder's revenues have been climbing at an 8% clip annually. "If the deal works, great," says Linda Bolton Weiser, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. "If it doesn't, they aren't betting the ranch." Hip makeup brands like M.A.C. and Bobbi Brown and a stable of high-margin skin creams and hair-care products should keep the company growing in the short term. Ford says he'll be mining Lauder's archives for ideas...
...meantime, Bolton's confirmation looks far from assured. That has not prevented the nominee, however, from moving through his to-do list. Government sources tell TIME that after he was nominated in early March, Bolton requested that all American employees of the U.S. mission to the U.N. submit their résumés for review. The move cast a chill over the operation, where some saw it as presumptuous. It may also have been premature. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson and Adam Zagorin/Washington