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When considering last week’ assassination of Rafiq Hariri, this notion of civil volatility is all too apparent. Consider the two scenarios for Hariri’s assassination: either Syria is responsible, or they are not. If Syria is in fact accountable, the brutal assassination would be motivated by the Syrian leadership’s desire to reassert its power in Lebanon. In recent months, the U.S. has chosen to lambaste Syria’s presence in Lebanon, subsequently imposing sanctions on the country—an ironic demand considering the American occupation of Iraq. Thus, Damascus may have...
...settlers alleged it did. The insurgents did not spare the lives of women and children. And while Mau Mau’s body count was, as Elkins skillfully demonstrates, not as high as the death toll inflicted by the settlers, the insurgents matched the settlers in the realm of brutality. By contrast, Nazi claims of brutal acts committed by Jews against the Germans were unfounded, and untrue...
...their way into CNPC hands and vice versa. What’s more, a recent restructuring plan may put the CNPC’s Sudanese investments directly into PetroChina’s hands. Still, the exact logistical arrangment is irrelevant; Harvard money is flowing to one of the most brutal regimes on the planet. It doesn’t matter how it gets there...
...called trust deficit hasn't been reflected in sales. "American brands continue to sell very well in all continents," says Maurice Lévy, chief executive of the big French advertising agency Publicis. "The danger [is] that one day behavior could follow attitudes, and then the reaction can be brutal...
...character with wicked intensity. McShane excels at bringing out Swearengen's contradictions, not just with bluster but also with "the slightest gesture and simple stare," in the words of Timothy Olyphant, who plays Seth Bullock, the town sheriff and Swearengen's headstrong counterweight. Swearengen is coarse yet intelligent, brutal yet subtle. "He is the primitive in the modern world," says McShane. "Swearengen is the smartest man in town, but he knows that because of his nature he will not be accepted. So he pulls the strings behind the scenes." But he has his own, odd kind of principle...