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Rival campaigns immediately scrambled to prove that Dean's breakthrough meant little. "Nobody has ever doubted the intensity of Dean's support," says Jim Jordan, campaign manager for Kerry. "The question is, Can he broaden it?" Dean, meanwhile, is quick to downplay the notion that his rise is only a cybersurge: "The Internet is a tool, not a campaign platform...
...theme-park attraction--not a cool thrill machine like the Tower of Terror or a camp classic like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride but the staid Pirates of the Caribbean. For this project, Depp put aside the nutsy-greatsy auteurs of his past (Tim Burton, John Waters, Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch) to team up with Gore Verbinski, a director whose prime artistic achievement is the masterminding of the Budweiser frog commercials...
Youth tastes are so whimsical, though, nobody knows what will be a hit. Assaulted by ads all their lives, teens and twentysomethings are growing immune to most sales pitches. Says marketing consultant Jim Bulin, 61, based in Northville, Mich.: "They don't want some company to say, 'We've got your number, and here's your product...
...hostile bid to take over rival business-software firm PeopleSoft for a lowball price of $16 a share--about 50¢ less than the market value of the stock. Neither analysts nor competitors seemed sure whether to take him seriously. "Larry's just having some fun with these people," says Jim Goodnight, CEO of software firm SAS, based in Cary, N.C. "He's trying to mess up sales they're trying to close before the end of this quarter...
...cousins for the first time, he's doing more studying than investing in the Iraq market. What's hot? Satellite-phone guys roam the streets, charging a buck per minute of chatter. Satellite-dish salesmen line the highways from Jordan, hawking devices banned by Saddam. And some SUVs, pronounced "Jim-ses" (think GMCs), are coming in from Kuwait and selling at a discount. "Everything is a bit hectic right now," Ramadan says. But he and brother Zeyad, 31, plan to open a computer-training business in Baghdad by the end of the year...