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Picture a Toyota engineer in a Stetson, munching on a corn dog, and you'll get a sense of how the company sees its future. Toyota is constructing its sixth North American assembly plant, in the heart of truck country just outside San Antonio, Texas, aiming to build the next generation of its full-size Tundra pickup there and--if all goes as planned--finally conquer the U.S. truck market. Achieving that feat would mark a milestone for Toyota in its quest to become the great American car company and would follow its conquest of virtually every other market segment...
PENN: But whether or not Sydney was doing a dog- and-pony show at the U.N., I guarantee you he was relentless. It drives you crazy, but he gets what he wants...
Even in a serene, sunlit atelier on Paris' Left Bank, the life-size paintings propped against the wall cast a pall of terror. A hulking dog snarls with bared fangs over a naked man lying bloodied and bound on a concrete floor. Naked, hooded bodies lie tangled in a pile. A blindfolded prisoner stands in red women's underwear. The scenes of abuse by U.S. military prison guards in Abu Ghraib, near Baghdad, are unmistakable, almost as much as the painter's style. The Colombian artist Fernando Botero is, by his own admission, best known as "the painter...
...brutal expression of the day. "But they were the only ones who treated me like a human being," he says. "I think now maybe they were able to see something in me." Robinson remembers it this way: "We accepted him for what he was. They called him a hot dog for trying to do things he couldn't. We admired him for laboring beyond his skills. They resented him for taking one of their friends' jobs. Well, we could all relate to that. Nobody had to show him how to hit, but they wouldn't even show...
...diminuendo, with the formula "That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong and all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average." In between, for 20 minutes or so, he discourses wonderingly, without notes, on a place where a dog lying asleep in the middle of Main Street will live out his days. In eleven years of talking about Lake Wobegon on A Prairie Home Companion, he has not run out of material, nor does he seem likely to. He begins, on a recent show, to reflect in a misty...