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...last U.S. plant (most toys are made in low-wage Southeast Asia and China.) He has moved product-development teams from El Segundo, Calif., to Hong Kong, where they can better coordinate manufacturing. Result: a leaner, nimbler operation, with toys shipped to retailers earlier in the season to avoid supply disruptions...
...George W. Bush heads into the second year of his presidency and the second 100 days of his war on terrorism, the White House promises the President will be turning his attentions to the home front. The idea, it seems, is to avoid the electoral pitfall that felled his father, whose stratospheric approval ratings after the Gulf War quickly succumbed to the impression he did not care enough about a U.S. economy mired in recession...
...cease-fire' declared by Hamas has not impressed Israel, but it was never meant to. The radical Islamist group on Friday announced a halt to suicide bombings and mortar attacks inside Israel-proper "in response to many wise people who want to avoid giving our occupiers a chance to split our unity." And the reason for their concern was underlined Friday in Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp, where five Palestinians died and at least 70 were injured when Hamas and Islamic Jihad gunmen attacked a Palestinian Authority police post. Clashes between the PA and its Palestinian opponents have grown increasingly...
...Anthony Zinni was called home from the region last week, and his return date is not currently scheduled as Washington awaits further results from Arafat's efforts against the radicals. The U.S. has made clear it rejects Sharon's declaration of the PA leader as "irrelevant," and wants to avoid a scenario that would result in Arafat's political collapse. But it's unlikely that Arafat will ever do enough to satisfy Sharon; the question is whether and at what point he'll do enough to satisfy Washington...
...Taliban's final retreat was characteristically craven. Taliban sources told TIME that Omar "resisted handover until the end"?until his commanders turned against him?and then vanished. The bulk of the Afghan Taliban fled in the middle of the night to avoid reprisals by the tribal elders who immediately carved up the city. On liberation day Kandahar was as chaotic as it was joyous. Non-Taliban forces led by Mullah Naqib Ullah, an Omar backer and member of the Alokzai tribe who was handed control of part of the city, skirmished with men loyal to Sherzai trying to grab their...