Word: augustness
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...understood why they have come to be so resented there. Any occupation is traumatic. Perhaps the most poignant observation on Iraq in the past year was made by another U.N. representative in Baghdad, the Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, shortly before he was killed in a bombing last August. "Who would like to see their country occupied?" Vieira de Mello said to an interviewer. "I would not like to see foreign tanks in Copacabana." Time after time, the humiliation of occupation outweighs any good intentions that an imperial power may have. (Imperial powers always insist their true mission...
...Angeles Lakers will win the NBA Championship. I know this one isn’t too far-fetched or anything, but what happens after the team’s fourth championship in six years will be more interesting. Kobe’s trial begins in August, and supposedly, he wants...
...says Zhang, brimming with the winning patriotism of a socialist poster girl. The band's next stop: the U.S. Wang is hoping Americans will succumb to the group's siren charms when a U.S. debut album, Eastern Energy-which features a cover of Coldplay's Clocks-is released in August. "I'm a gambler," says Wang, "and I'm betting again...
...engine and an electric motor--a complicated technology that still draws blank stares, even though hybrids have been on the market for nearly five years. The latest versions, however, might be summed up by Ford's motto for its first hybrid SUV, an Escape, due in August: "No Compromise" (see review...
Something's wrong with this picture. Corporate profits are up; companies are spending again. More than a million jobs have been created since August, and economic growth should exceed 4% the rest of the year. The recovery bodes well for wages and job creation, even, at long last, for conservative savers who have been unable to find money-market yields much above 1% for several years. This is the good news we have all been waiting for. Yet Wall Street has been acting as if something were terribly wrong. Long-term interest rates are notching higher, a clear sign that...