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Racicot has wielded clout as a lobbyist since leaving the governorship a year ago. Representing a coalition of power companies, Racicot met with vice-presidential aides on Dec. 3, sources tell TIME, and argued to relax a clean-air law requiring utilities to install new pollution controls when they upgrade plants. In November he sent promotional material for Siebel Systems software to Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, according to Siebel executive Frank Bishop. Racicot, a Siebel director, followed up with a phone call to Ridge. Racicot says it is "insulting" to suggest his political role might help his lobbying...
...this year of 686 large and mid-size companies, AMR Research of Boston found that about one-third were using some form of online exchange. Another third expected to get involved in the next few years. The businesses investing most heavily in B2B were the largest ones, with the clout to compel smaller partners to follow them into cyberspace. Says AMR's John Bermudez: "Companies have been looking for a long time to see if they could do anything to streamline the supply chain. And there's absolutely no way of doing it without the Internet...
...been a guarantee that the lives of Supreme Leader Mullah Omar and the other commanders be spared. Their conduit has been a respected Soviet war veteran, Wakil Samat Noorzai, living in Spin Boldak, near the Pakistani border, who flatly informed the Taliban leadership that he didn't have the clout to enforce such a promise. Soon after, Omar urged his men to fight to the death. Negotiations for the peaceful handover of Kandahar's eastern borderlands to supporters of exiled King Mohammed Zaher Shah fell apart, and Taliban resumed control of the area. On Friday, dozens of their armed warriors...
...Iraq poses another set of problems. Suppose our forces topple Saddam Hussein? Then what? Observers have duly noted that the Northern Alliance might not be much better than the Taliban. But at least there was an opposition in Afghanistan. In Iraq, the only people with any political clout are Saddam’s allies and his cronies. Taking the war to Iraq will require intensive diplomatic acrobatics, a lot of luck and some divine intervention...
...style bell tower and the Talin, or Stupa Forest, an aptly named field of richly inscribed monks' tombs. But he doesn't have a light touch. Last summer when he wanted to restore Shaolin's bucolic backdrop, he bulldozed most of the village surrounding the temple. That took serious clout: more than 1,000 people saw their houses, shops and schools demolished on only two days' notice. Mrs. Zhang, a mother-of-two who rented out rooms to visiting martial arts students, says she too wants the temple to look pretty for visitors but, left to bivouac on what used...