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INSIDE The Bushes and the Kennedys--Bush and Putin at the Ranch--Jordanian Intelligence--Flying Lessons--Fighting Over the Sit Room--Clinton's Ad--Afghanistan's Star--Christmas Cards...
...good body. He's not as serious as Bush," says He Xuerong, general manager of Cosmetics King Ltd., explaining Clinton's appeal. "We wanted the Chinese President, but the government wouldn't allow it. America doesn't care." Don't be so sure. Informed about the ad, Robert Barnett, attorney for the former President, said he would write a cease-and-desist letter. "You can be 100% certain that this is unauthorized. The President and Senator Clinton have received dozens of requests to do endorsements and have turned all of them down...
...Chevy Nova: General Motors' effort to market the car in Spanish-speaking countries--where no va means "doesn't go"--is a legendary blunder. And cross-language advertising is a bigger challenge than ever, as the first American company that tries to use the word pet in a French ad will find out. Intel is known for its cutting-edge technology, but the original translation of its Pentium IV chip was too edgy for Koreans; it means "chip of death." Kentucky Fried Chicken found good news and bad news when it went global with its "finger-lickin' good" slogan...
...repeated it again and again and said nothing else; he was either deranged or doing a good job of pretending. The prison commander, Awaz Mohammed, said Aziz was merely acting that way in hope that his captors would take pity and take no action against him--a sort of ad hoc insanity defense. "These are the gifts that Osama has sent to Afghanistan," said Mohammed...
...pennies, and then by recruiting more and more Harvard students to fill in the gaps, you’ll have a potentially unlimited workforce, guaranteeing that on all deals your firms do (outsourced, of course!), your name will be on the coveted left side of the WSJ tombstone ad...