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...arrogant silence for more than a week before traveling to Belgium to apologize. (The incident resulted in a 65 million-can recall.) Nor did he burnish his company's image by failing to promote Carl Ware, senior vice president for African operations, Coke's top black executive, during a high-level shuffle in October--an omission that sent Ware to the exits even as four past and present black employees were suing Coca-Cola for alleged discrimination...
...problem, says a Russian airborne general, as we stand in a forward base just outside Gudermes listening to the steady rumble of heavy artillery and long salvos of Grad missiles. "We could establish the capital on this hill if we were told to." We are informed confidentially that a high-level delegation from Moscow will be flying in. But a brief, chaotic visit to the town underscores the difficulties that the Russian armed forces are having administering even an ostensibly friendly town...
Even President Neil L. Rudenstine took the unusual step of writing personal letters to the heads of Harvard's individual schools asking them to comply to University guidelines and cut short any personal obligations to attend the high-level meetings...
...according to other insiders, Rove was even barred from the Governor's office (a story Rove insists isn't true). But mostly Bush keeps Rove in line by keeping him off-balance, as he did last spring, when Rove's cellular phone started chirping in the middle of a high-level campaign meeting. The interruption annoyed Bush, who had asked Rove to turn his phone off during meetings. And so, after Rove left the room to take the call, Bush looked up and said, "Lock the door." Rove never got back in that day. But in Iowa last week...
...Falun Dafa) has acquired 2 million adherents since it was founded in 1992; the group claims 100 million practitioners. Official paranoia about this invisible force reaches as high as President Jiang. The 72-year-old leader, not known for late-night Web surfing, has reportedly become obsessed with the sect and its ability to organize its activities in cyberspace. Apparently Jiang frequently brings up Falun Gong in conversations with high-level foreign visitors, and Western diplomatic sources say he was driven outside Zhongnanhai in a car with tinted windows to observe for himself the group's silent protest in April...