Word: businessman
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...Virginia--the state in which the Pentagon was attacked--nobody much cared when America's mayor appeared in a television commercial and declared, "If I were a Virginian, I would vote for Mark Earley." Giuliani's benediction couldn't help the hapless Republican gubernatorial candidate. Earley's opponent, Democratic businessman Mark Warner, made sure to pose with flags and fire fighters, but the race was about taxes, teachers' salaries, traffic congestion--pre-9/11 stuff. Warner won with 52% of the vote...
...positions in the hills in the east. A delegation of tribal elders led by Abdul Haqiq, a former mujahedin commander, spent three days with Taliban representatives negotiating the handover of Kandahar and three other southern Afghan provinces. Under the plan, Mullah Naqib, an ex-commander, and Haji Bashar, a businessman allegedly linked to the opium trade, would both become interim leaders of Kandahar. According to sources in the city, a distraught Omar, at times on the verge of weeping, met briefly with the elders on Friday to press them to accept the plan, which would allow him to retain influence...
More important, Salim acknowledged to his German interrogators that he had opened an account at Deutsche Bank and that he gave signature power over the account to Mamoun Darkazanli, a Syrian businessman who had settled in Hamburg in the 1980s and who has told reporters that he knew some of the Sept. 11 hijackers. Darkazanli attended the wedding of Said Bahaji, an alleged member of the cell that included suspects Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi. Bahaji's wedding album includes pictures of Atta and Al-Shehhi. Darkazanli's name is now on a list of 39 terrorists and organizations...
...most bizarre media moment of the week was not Washington's tapping as its propaganda chief an advertising executive famous for selling Head and Shoulders shampoo and Uncle Ben's rice. No, that distinction would surely go to reports that Chilean businessman Eduardo Mateluna plans to launch a line of soaps and air fresheners called, simply, "Osama." Explained Mateluna, who has previously marketed wines named after General Augusto Pinochet, "It's a name that people already know...
...Virginia race, which pitted Warner against Republican Mark Earley, was the most expensive gubernatorial campaign in the state's history. Warner, a moderate businessman, raised more than $18 million for his campaign, while Earley, a longtime politico, put roughly $10 million into his attempt at the statehouse. Virginia, generally considered a solidly Republican state, has not elected a Democrat since Douglas Wilder won the vote in 1989. Observers say Warner won this year by staking out centrist positions on popular issues like gun ownership. Earley was also hurt by party infighting over budget and tax issues...