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...suite to cook them in, Zazi might have remained anonymous long enough to strike and kill, except that U.S. Homeland Security is a sharper instrument than it was in the summer of 2001. The dysfunctional system that failed to connect the dots before 9/11 managed, eight years later, to spot and disrupt a plot in progress. Zazi has denied charges he conspired to bomb targets in the U.S., but government officials are confident they've got their man. Authorities took notice when Zazi traveled last year to Pakistan, while his unsavory associations there - the FBI charges that Zazi attended terrorist...
...course, you can't spot these plush digs from the highway. Hence new signage, from branding consultant Interbrand Design Forum, that's designed to signal this new, modern spirit. The signature color was updated from forest green to a punchier yellow-green. The famous script now slants to the right instead of the left. "Handwriting analysis told us this was more forward-looking," says Amanda Yates of Interbrand. Yup, they analyze this stuff. Green bulbs illuminate Holiday Inns; blue beams shine up the walls of Holiday Inn Expresses. It's "an inexpensive way," says Scott Smith, also of Interbrand...
...engines of 1.5 liters or less and generally costing no more than $8,000 - drive 70% of auto sales in the country. "Ford was operating in just 30% of the market," says Khattar. "All the action was happening elsewhere." The diminutive Figo is Ford's bid for the sweet spot. "You have to be in the small car segment to be a relevant player in India," says Rajat Dhawan, who heads McKinsey's automotive practice in India. (See pictures of the world's cheapest...
...Hakim, the son of the recently departed and revered cleric Abdulaziz al-Hakim - and the militant Moqtada al-Sadr's party, which has its pulse on the much of the country's poor and frustrated Shi'a underclass. (Read how the shoe-thrower put Maliki in a sensitive spot...
...coup on June 28, so he had little choice but to let him into the embassy. But when Lula arrived in Manhattan, according to numerous sources, his irritation was plain. "He was taken by surprise and put in an uncomfortable position," says one Brazilian source. "Brazil was on the spot, in the center of the Honduran crisis. It's not what we wanted...