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...rarefied levels of couture. Tremors are shaking up ready-to-wear too. In the late 1990s luxury groups like Gucci and Prada began snapping up stakes in labels by ultracool but often young and untested designers. Now the money men are losing patience and no longer want to wait for a hefty return on their investments. At the same time, restive designers are tiring of bottom-line pressures from their conglomerate owners or are frustrated by what they see as insufficient financial support from them...
When it comes to spying, Donald Rumsfeld is an impatient man. The Defense Secretary hated having to wait for CIA spooks to make arrangements with Afghanistan's warlords before his special-operations commandos could infiltrate the country ahead of the 2001 U.S. invasion. These days Rumsfeld is even less inclined to depend on the CIA. Instead, he is pushing his generals to field a larger and more aggressive clandestine force to spy on terrorists worldwide and attack them...
...establishing polling stations around Iraq. The UN Electoral Assistance Division is playing a consultant role to the IIEC, but the security situation has ruled out the possibility of having international election monitors observe the vote. The IIEC has warned that the security and logistical arrangements may mean that a wait of up to ten days may be necessary before the results of the election are made known...
Katie Couric A network source tells TIME the Today show co-anchor has been approached about the job. If she could be persuaded to jump, CBS would have to wait 16 months--when her NBC contract is up. But the network could name an old hand like Face the Nation's Bob Schieffer or Early Show host Harry Smith as a caretaker until then...
...even for those detainees ostensibly cleared, the wait goes on. Only one of them has been released thus far, the officials tell TIME, and just two more are cleared to depart. The reason is that under the tribunal rules, final approval of each release order is put on hold until the CIA and other intelligence agencies have a chance to comb their files for additional incriminating evidence to present to the tribunal. Only if the tribunal then decides a second time that a detainee is eligible for release will the Pentagon actually sign off. A Pentagon spokesman would not comment...