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What concerns analysts like Prudential's Michael Bruynesteyn is that Chrysler's mix of all-new or redesigned vehicles will be meager next year compared with that of rising rivals such as Honda and Nissan. And Chrysler has shown a penchant for resorting to costly incentives at the first whiff of sagging sales. Looking ahead, Zetsche says, "profitability is our No. 1 guiding principle," even if that means accepting a smaller share of the market. As for Gilles, he's hard at work on the next generation of Chrysler minivans. He won't breathe a word about their design...
...says Rhodes upon meeting Time's reporter. "Two Murray Islanders put a spear to my throat and stole all my fish. I was fishing 14 nautical mi. from their island." Sea rights is a hot issue in the Torres Strait following landmark native-title decisions in the 1990s; a whiff of secession talk intermittently sweeps through Islander communities, which have been known to dispense harsh treatment to outsiders...
...Tyrant's Novel was written, sagely, sinuously, under the spell of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa and their mad generalissimos. There is everywhere a whiff of Graham Greene, with his moral skirmishing in the gray areas. The current Iraq war is one of those. Keneally, who knows something about lies and hypocrisy, could have told you it would be. --By Richard Lacayo
...rebuild the country. But the firm has become a lightning rod for criticism of the U.S. presence in Iraq. Thanks in part to Vice President Dick Cheney's five-year tenure as the company's CEO, Halliburton's contract with the U.S. government has been unable to escape the whiff of cronyism--even though Cheney says he has no connection to the company today other than the $178,437 he received last year, one of five annual deferred-compensation payments (see box). The firm is a constant target of violence and the subject of persistent rumors of corruption...
AMERICAN IDOL It takes talent, a bio and a whiff of Machiavelli to win this reality-show crown...