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...didn't strike back "big time," it would be perceived as weak. (Crushing the peripheral Taliban and staying focused on rooting out al-Qaeda cells wasn't "big" enough.) The President may have had some personal motives-doing to Saddam Hussein what his father didn't; filling out Karl Rove's prescription of a strong leader; making the world safe for his friends in the energy industry. The neoconservatives had ulterior motives too: almost all were fervent believers in the state of Israel and, as a prominent Turkish official told me last week, "they didn't want Saddam's rockets...
...charts, Fidel was the enemy and the Cold War was getting uncomfortably hot in Vietnam and elsewhere. Ten years later, Stills controversially followed through on the message behind those seemingly carefree words he’d once sung—he rocked Havana’s Karl Marx Theatre in a historic Cuban-American music festival...
...apparel actually play in it. "Golf is more than just a practical sport now," says Marshal Cohen, chief analyst at the NPD Group. "People are buying golf clothes for multiuse, as a way to make casual clothing dressier." So it makes sense that fashion designers like John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld are also getting into the game with funky golf-apparel lines that are not just for the fairway. At Christian Dior, Galliano?who has never picked up a club in his life?has created a line of offbeat golf clothing and accessories, including a pink-and-yellow Argyle-patterned...
Perhaps Bush is more easily explained. Maybe his certainty is a marketing strategy. Clearly, the President and Karl Rove believe that Americans want a strong, God-fearing, plainspoken leader who doesn't burden them with complexities. That was certainly true in the recent past, as the nation wafted through an unprecedented period of affluence. It may still be true. The President's poll ratings remain buoyant, despite ample evidence in recent weeks that his Iraq policies are trending toward disaster...
...grafted significant amounts of consumer data onto their public-records databases, hoping to discover veins of unmined gold. Increasingly, politics and the personal-data industry are in cahoots. General Wesley Clark, the former presidential candidate and former Acxiom board member, opened doors in Washington for the data giant. And Karl Rove, George W. Bush's top political strategist, worked in the direct-marketing industry before he entered the political arena...