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...October 20, the former general appeared relaxed and confident. In a 30-minute talk at the presidential palace in Jakarta with TIME's Southeast Asia bureau chief Simon Elegant and Correspondent Jason Tedjasukmana, Yudhoyono addressed the many daunting challenges facing his fledgling presidency: doubtful economic prospects, disappearing foreign investment, rampant corruption, terrorism, and separatist and religious strife. Excerpts...
Phase 1, getting the Swoosh recognized, proved relatively easy. Nike outfitted top Chinese athletes and sponsored all the teams in China's new pro basketball league in 1995. But the company had its share of horror stories too, struggling with production problems (gray sneakers instead of white), rampant knock-offs, then criticism that it was exploiting Chinese labor. Cracking the market in a big way seemed impossible. Why would the Chinese consumer spend so much--twice the average monthly salary back in the late 1990s--on a pair of sneakers...
...Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declared that he had seen no compelling evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. Then the Washington Post reported that former Iraqi administrator Paul Bremer said the U.S. had not sent enough troops during the early days of the occupation to prevent the rampant looting that took place then as well as the sense of lawlessness that now rules portions of the country. Most explosive of all was weapons inspector Charles Duelfer's 918-page CIA report on Saddam's weapons, which concluded that while the Iraqi leader had wanted weapons of mass destruction...
...candidates insist a draft is neither necessary nor desirable and that the U.S. can maintain its commitments with an all-volunteer Army. "We're not going to have a draft--period," Bush said in last Friday's debate. Yet speculation about the looming return of conscription has become so rampant that House Republicans last week tried to dispel the rumors by forcing a vote on a no-hope bill to reinstate the draft. (It lost, 402 to 2.) "We've got 295 million people in this country," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said before the vote. "We don't need...
...down payment on a house. Thereafter Jurgis endures a nearly endless stream of misfortune, exploitation, and pain that gives lie to the fantasy of the Happy Immigrant. From the horror of the fertilizer factory to the mansion of a robber baron, Jurgis experiences the extremes of capitalism run rampant...