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...reach its goal, Panasonic has to make copper come a cropper--and beat the bunny. It is going to be one nasty encounter. Duracell and Energizer, which enjoy about 29% and 25% market share, respectively, are two of the best-marketed brands in the U.S. Duracell, a.k.a. "the CopperTop battery," now owned by Procter & Gamble, has won five Effie Awards since 1992 for most effective ad campaign. As for Energizer, part of Energizer Holdings, its roaming pink bunny is a marketing icon. The 17-year-old Energizer Bunny is part of the vernacular, used to describe anything that continues relentlessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out to Beat the Bunny | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...anxiety. Meeting with clients requires navigating a complicated process of permissions, searches and U.S.-imposed time restrictions with defendants. Al-Zubaidi and a colleague of his who survived the shooting, Thamer al-Khuzaie, described in detail a Nov. 6 visit to consult with a client at U.S-administered Camp Cropper. They met Barzan Ibrahim Hasan, head of Iraqi intelligence in the 1980s, in a trailer. Inexplicably, he appeared with a scarf wrapped around his head so that they could see only his eyes. They say they were not allowed to see his face and were told not to hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Defending a Tyrant | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...Dulaimi says the details of his more than 10 visits with Saddam in Camp Cropper are too humiliating to discuss, for both himself and his client. Al-Dulaimi says he had always been opposed to Saddam when the dictator was in power, but he so resented watching a foreign power invade his country that he decided to defend Saddam in court. Al-Dulaimi intends to prove that the tribunal is illegal because it was set up under occupation. As for the charge that Saddam ordered widespread torture and killing in Dujail in 1982, the lawyer will argue that Saddam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Defending a Tyrant | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...kept to himself and valued his privacy. “He was very pleasant—shy—he would probably be very embarrassed to know an article would be written about him,” Krohn said. Cuomo formed Weezer on Feb. 14, 1992 with Jason Cropper, Matt Sharp, and Pat Wilson. The band signed with DGC Records and released its self-titled debut album on May 10, 1994. That album became a commercial success, featuring such singles as “Undone (The Sweater Song),” “Buddy Holly...

Author: By Cyrus M. Mossavar-rahmani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cuomo To Return to Harvard | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

...They want to see the high-angle helicopter shot...but they didn’t get that, so now it’s like, ‘Well, okay, let’s move on, get ready for the Super Bowl.’” Panelist Tonya Cropper, a student at the Kennedy School of Government and former New Orleans resident, also said that Americans have forgotten that the victims of Katrina are human like them.“Most people cannot identify themselves with black babies on the streets, elderly people on the streets. People will think...

Author: By Matthew R. Tierney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Experts Discuss Katrina | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

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