Word: gauls
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...characters evoked by this skilful cast of 10. If you think Rabbit sounds like an episode of Australian Story on stage, you're not mistaken: Valentine has taken the dialogue from transcripts on the public record. But the cleverly constructed play, directed by Kate Gaul, comes off as a community's cry for self-esteem, not a critique of pay-TV or rugby league...
...February 2002, and for nearly two years the rest of the transportation world have looked on with a combination of envy and schadenfreude. But a man of Amorello’s imagination is no more satisfied with that gargantuan project than Caesar was with two-thirds of Gaul. And so he has commissioned an study—the first stop on the long ride to monorail creation...
After the Conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar--who served as both the Tommy Franks and L. Paul Bremer of that operation--had serious pacification problems. A particularly violent revolt occurred in the town of Uxellodunum. "Caesar saw his work in Gaul could never be brought to a successful conclusion if similar revolts were allowed to break out," wrote his friend Aulus Hirtius. "So he decided to deter all others" by cutting off the hands of the prisoners taken at Uxellodunum and sending the survivors out across Gaul as an object lesson. Hirtius concluded, "The situation was now everywhere satisfactory...
Iraq, like Gaul, is divided into three parts--and the U.S. has more serious pacification problems, and a less vivid set of pacification options, than Caesar did. The Bush Administration says the country is largely quiet--but a successful guerrilla war doesn't require much more than a fervent handful of fighters. In Iraq there are on average a dozen attacks against American soldiers each day. There are countless acts of sabotage. There is massive theft of oil, copper (from power lines) and electrical equipment. And there are the now weekly high-profile terrorist acts, like the bombing...
...Iraq, like Gaul, is divided into three parts-and the U.S. has more serious pacification problems, and a less vivid set of pacification options, than Caesar did. The Bush Administration says the country is largely quiet-but a successful guerrilla war doesn't require much more than a fervent handful of fighters. In Iraq there are on average a dozen attacks against American soldiers each day. There are countless acts of sabotage. There is massive theft of oil, copper (from power lines) and electrical equipment. And there are the now weekly high-profile terrorist acts, like the bombing...