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...George Bush doesn't need any Cuba-style pictures to prove Saddam is an intolerable risk. He knows it "no doubt," as Cheney repeated. Now the rest of the world has to decide if it does too. --Reported by John F. Dickerson, Mark Thompson, Douglas Waller/Washington and J.F.O. McAllister/London
...Reported by Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty and Douglas Waller/Washington and Andrew Purvis/Suleimaniya
...brands are aimed in part at getting the hard-liquor logos on TV. "A great deal of the advertising frenzy is the ability to put the company name out," says Tom Pirko of BevMark, a California beverage-consulting concern. "In a sense, the drinks are impostors." James Thompson, marketing vice president for Diageo, denies any such motivation. He says the ads simply target consumers thirsty for the next new flavor. He estimates that malternative brands will spend $250 million to $300 million on television ads this year...
Will the malternatives increase demand for the parent brands? "It's not why we're doing this," says Diageo's Thompson. "But that would be nice." --By Laura Bradford
DIED. BENJAMIN C. THOMPSON, 84, architect who transformed a decrepit waterfront in Boston into the vibrant Faneuil Hall; in Cambridge, Mass. Critics sneered at the mall as a sanitized replica of a European market, but Thompson repeated the formula across the country, including at Washington's Union Station...