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...Philip Elmer-DeWitt
...says retired Admiral William Crowe, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and now an adviser to GlobalOptions, a corporate security firm in Washington. "We recommend that clients decentralize if it's practical." Firms with well-known American brands are also being advised to lower their profiles abroad. Philip Morris says it may soon remove its brand names (such as Marlboro and L&M) from delivery vans and sales uniforms in Indonesia...
...Philip Lamy, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Castleton College in Vermont, further probes that world view: "The fear that these changes will eradicate their language. Their religion. Their way of life. Westernization as the major lifestyle. Capitalism as the major economic system. English as the major language. Tourism as a major industry. These things scare them. This is not just a madman's mind...
...motion—raised by Philip A. Kuhn, Higginson Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations and English Professor James Engell—reaffirms the Faculty’s 1970 Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities which states, among other things, that “...interference with members of the University in performance of their normal duties and activities must be regarded as unacceptable obstruction of the essential processes of the University...
...West are now fetching record prices as well. In late July a 1908 watercolor of a grizzly, right, by Charles M. Russell sold for $2.3 million at the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction in Reno, Nev., the highest ever paid for a Russell. A painting by Philip R. Goodwin, which a Wisconsin woman said she couldn't unload for $5 at a garage sale, brought in $55,000. Overall, the five-hour auction racked up a record $14 million from investors who jetted in from as far away as Maine and Florida...