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...continuing mess in the country, have drained his credibility. "I didn't have any problems with him before the war," says Nigel Williams, a marketing manager. "Now I think he should concede." Ed Owen, who advised Foreign Secretary Jack Straw for 12 years before starting a political-communications firm, spent last month campaigning to become a Labour councillor in his London borough. Owen found "a good deal of hostility to Blair among middle-class, liberal-leaning Labour supporters, much of it wrapped up with Iraq," he says. And he adds, ruefully, that "Blair is no longer the unfailing and extraordinary...
...fourth firm, Qwest, refused the government's request for its records, despite what USA Today reported was heavy pressure by the NSA, including a suggestion that Qwest might not get future classified work with the government. In a written statement, the attorney for former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio said Nacchio believed that "these requests violated the privacy requirements of the Telecommunications...
...interactive "Nikepark" in northwest Paris. British Marketer OMD found that after the '02 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, more British consumers thought Nike was the official sponsor than thought Adidas was. "You've got to admire Nike," says Bliss, now president of Javelin Group, a sports-marketing firm in Alexandria, Va. "They're very creative, and they know what works...
...Security and Medicare. To bridge itself to 2010, GM is shedding factories and workers, offering buyout packages to its entire North American hourly workforce. It is also raising cash by unloading assets like a 51% stake in its GMAC finance arm, scheduled to be sold to a private equity firm, Cerberus Capital, for $14.1 billion. "We've made big moves in every area," Wagoner told TIME, adding that GM has "no plan, strategy or vision to utilize bankruptcy" to restructure...
...That marriage's endurance has rested on Brown's firm conviction that he will ultimately get the top job and will fare better in it if the transition is orderly. But such an orderly transition is now endangered, and in a way that was predictable. The brutal law of a parliamentary system is that all careers must end in failure: if you stay as long as you possibly can, lots of people will be happy to see you go. Which means that Tony Blair, who hoped to burnish his reputation with a slew of reformist legislation before passing the torch...