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...Last week, Anheuser-Busch, the world's No. 1 brewer by volume, announced its intention to buy 29% of Harbin Brewery. SABMiller, A-B's nemesis (formed in July 2002 when South African Breweries bought out the Wisconsin-based Miller Brewing Company), retaliated by declaring that it would launch a $391 million hostile takeover bid for Harbin. The prize is a company that made a profit of just $15 million last year but that offers a coveted entr?e into the beer-loving northeast of China...
...face it, the Kerry campaign is still in its larval stage.) The senator from Massachusetts should offer a positive alternative to Bush’s-head-up-his-arsenal obliviousness with an agenda that faces our responsibility to future generations. The best place to start would be to launch a Global War on Poverty to preempt the security threats of the 21st century...
...military's new independence was signaled last week when Mohammed Deif, head of the military wing, had his cadre launch an unsanctioned barrage of missiles at Gaza settlements. Hamas leaders tell TIME that Deif, who lost an eye in an Israeli assassination attempt in 2002, will now look increasingly to powerful Hamas moneyman Khaled Meshaal for instructions and financial support. The group's chief fund raiser, who splits his time between Qatar and Syria, has become more assertive. When political leaders in Gaza were about to select a moderate as their new chief, he ordered them to delay the appointment...
...failure to uncover deceptions in the work of star reporter Jack Kelley; in McLean, Va. Kelley, who resigned in January, was found to have fabricated parts of at least 20 stories and plagiarized at least 100 passages since 1991. Both editors had been with the paper since its launch...
...sold. These allowances have little to do with consumers and add complexity to operations. Yet the industry has relied on them for profits--instead of, say, finding and selling the stuff that shoppers really want. Grocery manufacturers, who have leaned on the allowance system to help launch new products and unload unpopular ones, were forced to shift gears because Wal-Mart forgoes all allowances and simply negotiates--famously and ferociously--for a lower total price, or dead net cost...