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...made for athletes and, in the words of a Coke spokesman, "anyone who works up a sweat." At PepsiCo, Inc., plans are well under way for a summer rollout of its new drink for jocks and those who aspire to be: All Sport. Other large companies are entering the fray with similar products -- Dr Pepper/Seven-Up with a drink called Nautilus, and A&W Brands, Inc., with a player yet to be named...
...Kosovo blows, so may Macedonia, where there is a large Albanian population. That could trigger an intervention from Greece, which takes a mischievously proprietary interest in the birthplace of Alexander the Great. Greece's involvement could, in turn, provoke its old antagonist Turkey to enter the fray, and history really will have come full circle...
...Perot petition coalition fuses spare-no-expense business sophistication with a giddy volunteer enthusiasm. Despite Perot's pretense of an above-the- fray aloofness from the campaign, the nerve center is on the 11th floor of the same posh north Dallas office tower where his business headquarters is located. Here half a dozen Perot Group employees huddle behind the closed brown door of a war room. A wall map of Texas symbolizes the state's role as the first major petition hurdle; by May 11, Perot needs the signatures of 54,000 voters who did not participate in this year...
John M. Newman, a former U.S. Army major who teaches history at the University of Maryland, has entered this fray with a meticulously documented argument that Kennedy planned to withdraw from Vietnam had he been re-elected in 1964. Earnest yet overheated, grounded in footnotes yet prone to flights of conspiratorial conjecture, JFK and Vietnam (Warner Books; 506 pages; $22.95) reads like a strange hybrid between a doctoral dissertation and the rough draft of an Oliver Stone screenplay, and with reason: it was, indeed, Newman's dissertation, and Stone did use it as a basis for his movie...
This week, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson joined the fray, speaking in support of minority hiring activists in an appearance at the school...