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...isolated. But there's something almost comical about Blair and Bush setting preconditions for a conversation in which, however they might spin it, they're asking for help. Tehran ultimately shares an interest in preventing a breakup of Iraq, but the mayhem currently unfolding there hurts the U.S. and Britain a lot more than it does Iran. On balance, it hardly makes sense to Iran to help the U.S. and Britain in Iraq without getting anything in return...
...Pabst, who was close to hiring Marlene Dietrich before Brooks said yes, knew that the Germans would be outraged that an American flapper was playing their Lulu, a character that was nearly a national icon. (Imagine the flap in Britain if this were announced: Brad Pitt is James Bond.) But they couldn't resist Brooks' fresh approach, which painted Lulu as a naif with bad taste in beaux. A carnal Candide, a blithe arsonist of men's hearts, she has no calculation in her, just a knowing or beckoning smile. Her face makes a kind of smile when...
...Syria for obvious reasons. But if Iran and Syria get involved, the war will soon be history, because both countries have the wherewithal to rein in the Iraqi militias in a matter of months. Bush would do well to hold limited talks with both countries or, better still, allow Britain and France to do so. With the Iraqi albatross hanging around his neck, Bush cannot properly deal with Iran, Syria or North Korea. Stephen O. Obajaja Lagos, Nigeria Cheney Gives No Ground I was chilled and appalled by vice President Dick Cheney's glib answers to Time's interview questions...
...chairman in 1991, he has multiplied the Tata group revenues seven times to an annual $21.13 billion. Since 2000, the group's market value has multiplied almost 18 times to $49.1 billion. For the past six years, Tata has been on a $1.9 billion shopping spree that has netted Britain's Tetley Tea, South Korea's Daewoo Commercial Vehicles, Singapore's NatSteel and New York City's Pierre Hotel, among more than a dozen other acquisitions...
...breaks away from the view that Britain facilitated global trade, and instead posits that the British simply disrupted a functioning system of Asian markets already in place well before Europeans arrived in India...