But as long as they had at least a gold credit card and a solid professional or civil-service job to go back to, they were free to come to Japan, to shop until they dropped.
That prompted then-White House Counsel Gonzales and President Bush's chief of staff, Andy Card, to go to Ashcroft's bedside in an intensive care unit at George Washington University Hospital.
SonicBlue (nasdaq: SBLU - news - people) opted to go with SanDisk 's (nasdaq: SNDK - news - people) smaller Multimedia card, which holds 64 MB, for its Nike-branded MP3 player.