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...uniform who go in harm's way, including the Navy's sailors, the airmen and women of the Air Force, and the Marines. By the way, when I and several other editors met with Rumsfeld at the Pentagon in November to talk about the war, he made the pitch, unsolicited by us, that the Person of the Year should be the American soldier. (Or as he put it, the American volunteer...
Here's the IPO pitch: invest in a company with no sales, an operating loss since inception and an idea for a product. It's not Silicon Valley calling--it's Tinseltown. Civilian Capital is selling shares of a movie, set to star Ethan Hawke, that starts filming next spring. Financing films through public partnerships is nothing new, but with Billy Dead (the movie's working title) Inc., the ante is much lower than normal. Shares are pegged at $8.75, with a 100-share minimum. The IPO, which is set to end Feb. 10, aims to raise $7.9 million...
...Pitch to the Rich" [TIME Global Business, December], Volkswagen asserts that many of the problems its cars have are minor and that the cars perform solidly over the long haul. I purchased a 1999 VW Passat GLS V6 earlier this year. It had about 39,000 miles on it. At the time of purchase, I had the car thoroughly inspected. They found no problems. I have not yet reached 50,000 miles and have already had to replace the guts of a back door due to its locking up; the oil cooler due to oil leaking; the sway-bar linkage...
...story. THE FIRST STEP In Mogadishu, the sweet-faced, rail-thin young man named Abdi Salan Mohammed Hassan is known for his football prowess. He plays endless matches in the city's empty lots and with his quick feet and broad shoulders excels at every position on the pitch. He dreams about going to Britain to follow his favorite players - he can reel off the names of the stars on England's national team - and maybe study economics at university. At a weekly pickup game in late 2002, a close friend of Abdi Salan's shows up on crutches...
...they will be making the trip in a single well-worn flatbed truck. "It's just luck which truck you wind up in," Abdi Salan says. The Somalis cram into the back with their meager belongings and are told to stay silent. They roll out of Khartoum in the pitch-black night at about 40 km/h. Abdi Salan has just one thought: at this rate it will take a lot longer than 48 hours to reach Libya. FROM KHARTOUM TO KUFRA The smugglers aren't challenged as they leave Khartoum and pass a small encampment on the city's edge...