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That kind of despair, 19 months after the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein, is adding fuel to the angry guerrilla insurgency that the Bush Administration acknowledged last week is out of hand. Important parts of the country, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers said, are controlled by rebels. Principal cities and major roads west and north of the capital are ruled by Sunni insurgents. Al-Sadr's men launch uprisings at will across the wide Shi'ite belt, and even parts of Baghdad are no-go zones for U.S. troops and the frail forces of the interim...
...similar gala at Juan's flagship store in Manhattan. And this fall Target will start stocking single-serve Juan Valdez coffee machines to help consumers replicate cafe quality at home. "Even the average consumer is requesting much better coffee quality and in plain-vanilla places like a burger joint or a doughnut shop," says federation CEO Gabriel Silva...
...want to be known as the place that stuck him in the hospital. I'm trying to slough it all off on the Big Mac and French fries." SCOTT MCCLARD, owner of McClard's, Bill Clinton's favorite barbecue joint in Hot Springs, Ark., after the President's clogged arteries led to his heart-bypass operation...
...foreign sales accounted for only about 5% of these because of government restrictions. The venture with Fujian province's Longyan Cigarette Factory will make Marlboros widely available in China. But Big Tobacco's China dreams have gone up in smoke before. In 1986 R.J. Reynolds formed a $31 million joint venture to make Camels; 13 years later, the American partner bailed out by selling to Japan Tobacco. JT itself gave up on the venture when its contract expired this month, selling its stake to Chinese partners for a measly $18 million. The Marlboro Man will have to be faster...
...blow to the Crimson offence. Mazza and Edwards have already taken small hits in the preseason; Mazza has been hampered by broken bones in his thumb and sprained ligaments since the first day of preseason practice, and Edwards sat out practice early this week with a bruised shoulder joint...