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...Salman Dhahir was wearing his new uniform the morning he was shot in front of his 15-year-old daughter. At 7:45 a.m. on Nov. 11, Dhahir, a Baghdad police officer, dropped Diana off at her high school. Sitting in one of his unit's blue-and-white Nissan pickups, he watched as she walked toward class to make sure she got inside safely. Suddenly a submachine gun fitted with a silencer opened fire from across the street. Glass shattered as the windshield became a web of cracks. Dhahir's driver took a bullet in the head and another...
...Austrian-made Glock pistol, now standard issue for Iraq's police. "The accuracy is great, especially at night," he says, pointing out glow-in-the-dark dots on the sight that line up a target. The Americans have given Iraq's police other equipment as well: Motorola walkie-talkies, Nissan Maxima patrol cars and bulletproof vests. But the technology can't come fast enough. The 259 men under Dhahir's command share 35 flak jackets...
...Appli'Plast and its 45 employees have cause for optimism. Since taking it over in 1995 as a bankrupt business creating plastic manufacturing molds, Lenoir and Appli'Plast manager Jacques Vaillant have transformed the company into a producer of plastic components and accessories. End clients include carmakers Ford, Renault, Nissan and Opel, as well as appliance manufacturers. Unlike many small- and medium-sized businesses in France, Appli'Plast refused all financial aid offered by local and regional governments, says Lenoir. It has also not exploited the reduced labor charges on new employee hires arising from France's reduced 35-hour...
...tensions exist atop Renault between chairman and chief executive Louis Schweitzer and his heir Carlos Ghosn, they're well veiled. Ghosn is CEO of Nissan Motor, the Japanese automaker that Renault controls through a 44.4% ownership stake. He's slated to move from Tokyo to Paris in 2005 and become CEO of Renault while Schweitzer remains chairman, a situation that Ghosn says could be seen as "potentially antagonistic." But he and Schweitzer have worked together for five years and developed a relationship of "mutual trust," Ghosn says, adding that after a decision is made public "you never know who defended...
Ghosn will remain CEO of Nissan, becoming chief executive of two car companies with headquarters on two continents. If anyone is up to the task it's he. A 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...