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...boycott, but it's beginning to feel like one. According to two polls by GMI, a Seattle-based market-research company, nearly 20% of consumers abroad say they will avoid U.S. companies and products like McDonald's, Starbucks, American Airlines and Barbie dolls because of the U.S.'s unilateral foreign policies. And the more American a brand is perceived to be, the more resistance it encounters. For instance, almost half the survey respondents (including 1,000 people from each of the G8 nations, excluding the U.S.) associate Mattel's Barbie with America, while 10% make the same link with Kleenex...
...bell ringers received $8.8 million from Target shoppers--nearly a tenth of the Salvation Army's total $93.8 million holiday haul. Several Christian groups, including Concerned Women for America and the American Family Association, have protested the ban and are encouraging their members to shop elsewhere. Fears of a boycott led Mervyn's, a former Target subsidiary, to reverse its own ban last week, but so far Target's 1,313-store chain is standing firm with its bah, humbug. --By Jeffrey Ressner. With reporting by Frank Sikora
...counting on al-Yawer to get out the Sunni vote. While most of the prominent Sunni parties are threatening to boycott, al-Yawer told reporters last week that he opposed a delay in the vote. In an interview with TIME in his plush home in Baghdad, al-Yawer reiterated his belief that elections are crucial to subduing the insurgency. "We're anxious to have the election on time," he says. "We're not comfortable with the label 'appointed government,' and we want to have the legitimacy that an election will bring...
...attack on Fallujah," he told TIME, "violence has escalated everywhere, even in Mosul, where things were quite calm before." His criticisms have won him admirers in the Sunni triangle, where government figures are regarded with scorn. Even the radical Association of Muslim Scholars, which is calling for a boycott of the election, offers guarded praise. Al-Yawer, says association spokesman Abdul- Salam al-Qubaisi, "is saying the right things, but we have to see if he takes the right actions...
...whose forces have repeatedly clashed with U.S. troops over the past year. Sadr himself appears to be hedging his bets: He failed to register his movement as a political party and therefore was unable to join Sistani's list, but his spokesmen have said the movement advocates neither a boycott nor participation - and UIA spokesmen are claiming his support...