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What's palpable at Boss is a forward motion so fast you can feel it. Year-on-year growth is at 15%, which Sälzer equates to the growth of Shanghai, where you blink and another skyscraper has gone up. "You can feel the growth, [whereas] a 5% growth in a brand or a city is more organic," he says, pointing to tonight's audience, which is full of youthful faces. "If you grow, you hire mostly young people, and if you don't grow, your company looks older...
...Makiya holds firm to his belief that sectarian divisions were not inevitable, that things could have gone otherwise...
...statue came down. Some of us who had been there before the war started were kicked out during the war. So I came back and the city was still in a state of shock. People realized that something important and profound had happened but they'd gone through so many disappointments before that they couldn't really come out and celebrate. So you had all these images on television of the flag being hoisted on top of the statue, the statue being pulled down, and some people in that square celebrating, but most of the city was very quiet...
...reaction to American military presence The first weeks after the war were incredible. Once people got over the shock, once they had come to terms with the idea that Saddam Hussein was really gone, was not coming back, the sight of American soldiers in the streets, at checkpoints, American tanks and armor rumbling along the city. That was reassuring. In the months and years to come, those would be seen as signs of oppression and occupation. But for those first few weeks, these were reassuring signs. It meant that if there were American tanks in front of the presidential palace...
...clearly illegal. And the idea that [U.S. Attorney General] Michael Mukasey - the highest law-enforcement official in the land - would say that he's "not quite sure" whether or not it's legal is astounding to me. I think we've gone a long way - or this Administration has gone a long way - in shocking the rest of the world at the kind of depravity that we're willing to entertain...