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Back in Washington, the Pentagon has been grooming some useful backup for Chalabi. Two subway stops from downtown, upstairs from a McDonald's, are the offices of the seven-week-old Iraq Reconstruction and Development Council. A pet project of Wolfowitz's, the organization consists of a group of exiled Iraqi technocrats sympathetic to Chalabi who have been feverishly planning how to restart everything from irrigation to trash collection to oil production as soon as the fighting stops. When they get the word from Garner, they will deploy as liaisons between his temporary American ministers and those Iraqis deemed salvageable...
Cometa recently inked a cunningly symbiotic deal to test Wi-Fi in 10 McDonald's outlets in Manhattan. If the test works out, Mickey D's 30,000 U.S. locations will provide the kind of footprint in the heartland that Cometa needs. McDonald's is interested not only in better serving road-warrior diners but also in the savings to be had from a network where everything down to the milkshake machine's maintenance schedule can be accessed at a moment's notice. The company has Wi-Fi in Australian, Japanese, Swedish and Taiwanese restaurants...
...news of fresh victims leaked out, Hu's efforts to shape his new government in a populist, people-first mold have been undermined. China's booming economy, which grew nearly 10% in the first quarter, is feeling the fallout, too. The volume of fast-food sales in chains like McDonald's and KFC fell 20% in southern China in recent weeks, according an industry source (KFC confirms sales fell but says they are now returning to normal). Despite the WHO's travel warning, the government refused to cancel its twice-yearly Guangzhou Trade Fair, which began on April...
...Staff writer Timothy M. McDonald can be reached at tmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Timothy M. McDonald can be reached at tmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu...