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...being a war President, now refers to himself as a peace President who would spend a second term working to repair damaged relations and build democracy in the Middle East. He has repeatedly sent the signal to Arab countries in interviews with their media that he's not keen on more invasions. After three years of criticizing Bush for high-handedness, some foreign officials at the G8 summit in June saw a real change. U.S. officials, they said, were more willing to listen, more interested in finding a pragmatic solution to their differences. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, long...
...secret of their success is the combination of Chou's manufacturing power--his family owns Novel Denim, one of the largest suppliers of textiles, sweaters and yarns in the Far East--and Stroll's keen knowledge of international distribution, product development and marketing. With Hilfiger, they were able to use manufacturing muscle to lower prices below those of competitors like Ralph Lauren. They also invested millions of dollars in advertising, flooding international markets with Hilfiger's name and attracting a trend-setting young urban crowd to the brand. In 1992 they took the company public with one of the industry...
...strength didn't turn out to be easy at all. A tactical victory at the shrine would rouse wholesale Shi'ite resistance to his government. A decision to back down would destroy Allawi's ability to impose order on insurgents across the country. At the Pentagon, officials were keen to be done with al-Sadr once and for all but acknowledged it would take an unacceptable level of force to do the job. They insisted that they were not calling the shots: any decision to storm the mosque would be Allawi's. The Prime Minister declared that any offensive into...
...story on Australia's Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., championed by the paper and about to face the U.S. Senate. The Canberra bureau suspects a growing acceptance within Labor ranks of the key bilateral deal, despite Latham's reluctance to publicly support it, and Mitchell's keen to confirm this. "It's not about Mark, it's not about supporting Howard, it's about policy ideas," he insists. The story, it's agreed, will be vigorously chased. Washington correspondent Roy Eccleston is called, late at night his time, and asked to write a piece on the FTA vote - straight...
...week's TIME poll, 51% of the likely voters interviewed said they agreed with his claim that the government under Bush benefits the rich at the expense of the middle class and the poor, and that view is shared by 55% of those who described themselves as independents. Brenda Keen, 49, a business manager for a University of Georgia literary journal, says Kerry's concern for the middle class is a big factor in winning her vote. "It's a struggle to have what's accepted as a middle-class American lifestyle," she says. Keen, the single mother...