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Kabul has become a favorite stopover for foreign dignitaries and assorted publicity seekers, and Karzai has to receive them all. On a recent weekday, the main attraction is General Richard Myers, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Karzai wants American help in building up a national army. International firepower, he argues, is the best way to answer the warlords. Myers offers U.S. help in training a "nucleus" of 600 Afghan troops. Karzai expresses gratitude but says, "The cost of the U.S. not staying committed is too high." If the Americans leave, he adds, "Afghanistan could slide back into...
...nation, and its Pentagon funding is expected to rise more than 50%, from $215 million last year to $326 million by 2004. JROTC has its best-known booster in Colin Powell, who was a ROTC cadet as a student at City College of New York. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he decided that JROTC offered the best prescription for saving lost inner-city youths...
...mainland. Broadcasting resources in China are owned, tightly controlled and censored by the government. There simply aren't many ways for overseas broadcasters to get signals to the public. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. beams some programming into the country through its STAR satellite business and its joint venture with Phoenix TV, a 24-hour news channel based in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, AOL Time Warner (TIME's parent company) has invested in CETV, another Chinese news and entertainment channel. But, it is technically illegal for most Chinese citizens to receive these broadcasts...
...This fact has informed all of Tom.com's decisions. Wang, the CEO, is a mainland-born former Goldman Sachs executive director with sterling credentials in Beijing and an expertise in closing deals on the mainland. He has already formed a joint venture with the China National Publications Import & Export Corp., which controls 90% of China's foreign publication trade, and is letting its government-assigned managers help him decide which magazines and books to take to market. Tom.com also has strong connections with China's sporting industrial complex, which could come in handy come the 2008 Olympics...
Lunch with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Richard Myers and his staff commanded $600, a meal with Mario Cuomo was $550 and one with Senator John McCain...