Word: mum
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...would be "happy" to provide "inflammatory quotes," for this piece, but also the book's original designer, Chip Kidd, who quit in protest. One of America's top book designers, Kidd has said he would be "loathe" to work for DC's comics division ever again. DC remains mum on the reasons for its rejection, saying only that, "due to a difference of editorial opinion, DC Comics felt that the cover Dan Clowes created was different from the one we envisioned for Bizarro Comics." Clowes' version appears with this article so you can judge for yourself...
...also much more polite. Though stung by slights from Washington in the early weeks of the Bush Administration, the Kremlin has been very discreet. Putin has discussed the Russian car industry and played host to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands but kept mum about George Bush or national missile defense. His Defense Minister, Sergei Ivanov, has taken a tougher line. Although the Kremlin originally signaled a willingness to discuss changes to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, Ivanov now implies that there is little to discuss. Adjusting the treaty means destroying it, he warned last week, and Russia does not intend...
...NICOLE Grant multitudes of interviews, stay mum about divorce. Rudy and Donna, please take note...
...Officially the Japanese government that stopped and detained him wouldn't even confirm the identity of the man traveling as Pang Xiong, but privately everyone involved left little doubt about who he really was. Pyongyang was keeping mum on the affair, although a close contact of the regime in Tokyo insisted it "is nonsense that Kim Jong Nam would come to Japan." Immigration authorities, tipped off by British intelligence sources, stopped him at passport control and whisked him to a detention center at the airport last Tuesday. He quickly admitted to authorities that he was in fact the man nicknamed...
When will the skies clear? Tom Galvin, market strategist at CS First Boston, notes that the National Association of Purchasing Management's New Order Index has risen three months in a row. He expects mum companies to gain enough confidence to start offering guidance when they report second-quarter results in July. I'm all for making a sensible bet on beaten-up outfits that stand to regain their sight in a few months. If what they see is the start of a recovery, the stocks will do well. Meanwhile, visibility hasn't been an issue for many recession-resistant...