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...productivity. An Austrian created Red Bull, building the energy drink niche in the U.S. Marketers removed emphasis from the working stiff and created a more frivolous image. Power Horse, whose potency claims are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), distances itself from the party mindset. The press release states, “The drink’s very appearance (a stocky and powerful can) demonstrates that Power Horse is not a drink for party-goers, stuntmen and acrobats. It is for everyday people...
...insurgency, according to U.S. intelligence estimates - that is responsible for the most spectacular bombings. The anti-Qaeda rebellion began in Anbar, formerly the most dangerous province in the country, an area famously described as "lost" to the terrorists in a Marine intelligence report leaked to the press in 2006. "Actually, the first tentative steps in Anbar were taken in 2005," Petraeus told me over dinner one evening. "The Abu Mahal tribe out by the Syrian border turned against al-Qaeda and fought hard - but pretty soon there were five or six dead sheiks." Not just dead, apparently - beheaded and left...
...Thursday morning the tiny conservative People's New Party (PNP) confirmed that Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru and a Japanese citizen, would campaign for the Diet under the PNP's banner. "I have agreed to run in the upper house elections," Fujimori told reporters at a press conference at the PNP's headquarters in Tokyo. "Please give me your support...
Fujimori's opponents in Peru have said that he's using his Japanese candidacy as a way to dodge extradition, and at today's press conference, PNP chief Shizuka Kamei confirmed that the party would ask Tokyo to help facilitate Fujimori's return from Chile so that he could campaign. (Adding to that suspicion, officials from the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan revealed this afternoon that Fujimori had approached them earlier asking to run on their ticket, only to be rebuffed.) According to the Japanese government, however, Fujimori will still be allowed to run even if he remains under...
...full in the next 24 hours, but the first and most prominent Cabinet appointment has provided them with a gag that, for the lensmen at least, has yet to wear thin. "Hello Darling!" they chorus raucously, as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer makes his way past the press...