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...same time I don’t think that France is willing to share the risk,” Veenita Kaushik, a local resident and self-described “foreign policy buff,” complained. “France provided the perfect crack for Saddam to manipulate...
...force. The U.S., particularly that extensive tribe of its citizenry under 30, is electronically in thrall to the thrumming, incessant sound of music, a phenomenon that has handed the record business a supremely marketable mania. Every week, hundreds of records are poured into radio stations by promoters trying to crack the crucial list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year, 5,000 new albums pile up on endless racks in drugstores and supermarkets, there to await the ready purses of Mom and her affluent children. Last year, those purses responded to the galactic, 16-track, monster...
...Motorola's Christopher Galvin, grandson of founder Paul Galvin, resigned as CEO in September after six years at the helm. The company then decided to dump its semiconductor arm. Then Helsinki-based Nokia shuffled top management positions, bringing in Rick Simonson as chief financial officer, the first Yank to crack Nokia's upper ranks...
...near progressive. Who knows if he’s not just a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a conservative masquerading as a Born-Again Liberal? I certainly don’t. I doubt he’ll really improve health care and education, substantially reduce poverty, or crack down on big business. But I do have faith that Clark is intelligent, and, above all, levelheaded. And these two attributes alone make a world of difference between a Clark presidency and a Bush presidency. And so, it’s probably wise for me, and you, to take...
...operations chief for the I.N.C. goes by the name of Abu Ranin. His job before the war was to crack the mukhabarat. His tactics were hardball. The I.N.C. had done surveillance on Iraqi missions around the world, making educated guesses about who was an intelligence agent. From these lists, the I.N.C. narrowed down its targets. "We chose them for their weaknesses, setting out to get something on them and force them to work for us," says Abu Ranin, who was then based in Jordan...