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<p>New Ad Spots Use Einstein, Edison, to Link German, American Skills; Can the War Ever Be a ‘Bygone’?</p> <p>Are German rocket scientists and Albert Einstein appropriate figures to illustrate the benefits of “putting German and American minds together” [to build better autos]? WSJ Thursday, July 11, 2002, page B1.</p>

(CNSNews.com) - Jesse Jackson met with DaimlerChrysler officials last month to pressure the auto giant to continue using minority owned firms for its $40 million a year multi-cultural advertising division, a spokesman for DaimlerChrysler confirmed. Chrysler had earlier come under fire from both Jackson and civil rights activist Al Sharpton for considering the use of a non-minority owned firms. DaimlerChrysler's final selection of the multi-cultural advertising agencies is scheduled by the end of June. DaimlerChrysler spokesman James Kenyon told CNSNews.com that meetings with Jackson and Sharpton were "very constructive" and "the dialogue was good." "They came in because they had...

NEW YORK - Retirement ill suits the legendary Lee Iacocca, but he finds himself unable to reclaim his former throne. So, like Shakespeare's King Lear, he rages at the people who inherited his kingdom, these upstarts who flatter him but spurn his advice and shunt him aside. It's an old story and it will end in the usual way, with the former chief executive roaring in vain as his successors go about their business without his input. Iacocca, the former Chrysler chairman, is now free to talk after the expiration of a five-year vow of silence that was part of...