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...dialogue, but at least two angry monologues, as liberals have discovered the cathartic power of mass-market name calling. (Moore's Dude, Where's My Country? is No. 1 on the Nov. 23 New York Times best-seller list, with Franken at No. 3, while a liberal talk-radio network appears to be in the works for next year.) "People feel more strongly because they perceive the stakes as being much higher," says publisher Steve Ross of Crown Publishing and its conservative Crown Forum imprint. "The more extreme the polemic, the greater the potential number of book buyers...
From age 10, Iger dreamed of being a network correspondent. But after a brief flirtation with TV news reporting, Iger moved behind the camera in 1974, working his way up to executive vice president at the ABC TV network in 1988. A year later, Iger was put in charge of ABC Entertainment. Under his stewardship the network moved from second place to first in prime-time ratings during the 1994-95 season. Through the hit show Home Improvement, a production of Disney's Touchstone Television unit, Iger got to know Eisner, who would become his boss when CapCities/ABC and Disney...
...French citizen and engineer who speaks six languages, Ghosn is a legend in auto circles for transforming Nissan from clunker to race horse. Puncturing the myth that no foreigner could change Japan's clubby corporate culture, he laid off thousands, revitalized product design, streamlined Nissan's supplier network--and became a cult hero in the local press. Nissan's 11% operating margin is among the industry's highest. Sales are up 12.7% this fiscal year, and Nissan projects net income to hit a record $4.2 billion. Renault's finances are considered solid, and Ghosn wants to expand logistics and parts...
...prosecutors' probe will likely show the GNP, whose candidate was the favorite to win last fall's presidential elections, took in more illegal contributions. But incalculable damage to Roh's once clean image has already been done. One of the biggest embarrassments came in July when a national television network ran a videotape of Roh's personal secretary Yang Gil Seung cavorting in a sleazy nightclub south of Seoul with the club's owner?a man who has been under investigation for tax evasion, pimping and instigation of murder...
...Moroccan - had been nabbed in Milan. In Britain, police in Gloucester arrested Sajid Badat, a Briton of Pakistani origin whom unconfirmed reports linked to shoe bomber Richard Reid, serving a life sentence for trying to blow up a plane in 2001. Authorities believe Badat, 24, was connected to "the network of al-Qaeda groups," said Home Secretary David Blunkett. "We wouldn't have taken these steps if we didn't believe this individual posed a very real threat to life and liberty in this country...