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...chaos" if infrastructure fails to expand sufficiently. As long as travel continues to grow, the skies might just be big enough for both models. Songs In The Keys Of Nokia Recovering mobile king Nokia last week flew American rhythm-and-soul star Alicia Keys to Amsterdam to help launch the N91, the company's response to Apple's iPod music player. Keys dazzled the crowd with piano wizardry and powerful vocals. Nokia boss Jorma Ollila is hoping she can do for the N91 what rocker Sheryl Crow did for the iPod. The stylish device holds 3,000 songs and doubles...
...Office Depot's battle with rival office-supply giant Staples, he needs all the help he can get. For growth, Odland is backing a marketing initiative with Nascar and a pilot program that puts Office Depot--brand products in Albertsons supermarkets. The company is also planning to launch 100 new stores this year and another 100 in 2006, boosting its U.S. total to nearly 1,200. Overseas, where Office Depot already operates in 21 countries, Odland is scouting anew in Asia, South America and Europe...
Paula Abdul has always been cuddlier with the American Idol hopefuls than her co-judges. But has the talent show's softie gone too far? Tabloids are reporting that Abdul allegedly had an affair with former contestant Corey Clark and promised to help him launch a music career before he was booted from the show in 2003. The other networks are circling: ABC's Primetime Live will explore claims of behind-the-scenes misbehavior at Idol, and Fox honchos are worried that ABC may have incriminating video of the couple. Abdul's rep issued a statement last week calling Clark...
...Morgan has only 25 titles in publication and doesn't plan a major expansion. Ladies Who Launch's Colligan says mothers often tell her they don't want their businesses to grow too fast. "Men would want it to be a $10 million company tomorrow," she says. "Moms have small children. They want to be with them. A steady pace is fine with them right...
...public testimony defending himself against these challenges. Already they have statements from Thomas Hubbard, who was President Bush's ambassador to South Korea during his first term, saying Bolton misrepresented Hubbard's views about the bitingly anti--North Korea speech Bolton gave in July 2003, just days before the launch of delicate six-nation talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to give up its nuclear-weapons program. The speech--in which Bolton vilified Kim Jong Il as a "tyrannical dictator" and said life in North Korea was a "hellish nightmare"--infuriated the North Korean government and, U.S. diplomats say, nearly torpedoed...