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...9/11 attacks--the scene that everyone who has seen Fahrenheit 9/11 will remember as seven excruciating minutes of reading The Pet Goat with a classroom of Florida schoolchildren. At that point the Bush campaign hauled out that icon of 9/11, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to brand Kerry "an indecisive candidate who has demonstrated an inconsistent position on the war on terror" and one who has been reduced, moreover, to "armchair quarterbacking based on cues from Michael Moore." So much for terrorism being the one issue that was supposed to be too grave to be sullied or manipulated...
Indeed, the 300 model line (which starts at $23,920) is the first since the 1998 DaimlerChrysler merger to validate Chrysler's strategy of trying to take its brand upmarket with a series of premium, high-volume cars and a new emphasis on design. And the car is fueling a dramatic turnaround at the automaker. On the basis of strong sales of the 300, Chrysler reported last month that it swung to a $628 million operating profit in its second quarter, vs. a $1.2 billion loss a year earlier. Chrysler brand sales were up 17% in July over a year...
LIVING: Toyota's Scion brand gets a makeover; flying safely with kids...
When the first two cars from Toyota's new Scion brand came out, they raised questions about whether the automaker's DNA had been lost in translation. The bean-shaped xA and especially the boxy xB begged for attention; these were not your buttoned-down Camrys. Of course, that was the idea. Scion is the budget nameplate Toyota launched last summer to lure Gen Y drivers to showrooms, and it's getting the job done. The median age of Scion buyers is an industry-low 35 (Toyota buyers overall push 48), and 75% are new to the Toyota family...
...summer by the government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin only begin to address the problem. Before the next presidential election, in 2007, the government says it will force through almost €10 billion in savings by cutting back on reimbursements for visits to specialists, favoring generic rather than brand-name drugs (per capita, the French are the world's most heavily medicated population), and cracking down on liberal sick leave. On top of that, the government wants to haul in another €5 billion in contributions. Beginning next month, patients will pay a single nonrefundable euro for every consultation...