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...demand fair play in business and politics. Two weeks before he died of cancer in Brisbane aged 57, he wrote to friends that P.N.G. needed people with the courage "to stand up for what they believe to be right when confronted with a sea of silence and quiet consent." On April 16, the country lost just such...
...town. But as much as they loathe Moqtada as an upstart troublemaker, even the most moderate among them are fiercely opposed to any U.S. military operation against him in the Shiite holy city. Everyone from Grand Ayatollah Sistani, the moderate elder of the Iraqi clerics on whose consent the entire transition process rests, to Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN diplomat to whom the Bush administration is looking to devise a political formula that will succeed where Washington's have failed, have warned the U.S. against sending troops into the city. It's precisely because of the Americans' difficulties in risking...
When General John Abizaid inherited the U.S. war in Iraq last year, some officers wanted him to boost the U.S. troop presence there to get a firmer grip on the violence racking the country. "More U.S. troops will lead to less consent for our presence among the Iraqis," Abizaid told them. Only partly in jest, he berated as "colonialists" those who wanted more U.S. troops in Iraq...
...that are successful today. If you’d like to enter into this potentially lucrative industry, I recommend you start soon—it’ll take you a while as you’ll need to make about 100,000 phone calls asking songwriters for consent before you’ll be competitive...
...taking tens of millions of dollars in unauthorized bonuses and essentially using Tyco assets as a giant piggy bank to fund their lavish lifestyles. In fact, their whole defense was that whatever money they took to fund their spending habits, they took with the board's knowledge and consent. They pleaded greedy but not guilty...