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After the Madrid bombing, even the German government, which consistently opposed the Iraq war, came around to this recognition. A senior German official, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, said, "If ... you can plant a big bomb in Europe, cause a government to fall and force a withdrawal of troops, then this would send the wrong signal to terrorists." He added, "That's not in Germany's interests or in Europe's or in Spain's." Winston Churchill put it more concisely: "An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping he will eat him last...
...said that Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd helped plant the idea in his head...
...starters, by killing one another. In this and other surface ways, Deadwood is like many westerns. There's a bad guy, saloon owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), who lives large by relieving the locals of their gold nuggets and having his thugs plant a bowie knife in anyone who gets in his way. But he is threatened when--yes--strangers ride into town. Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) is a former marshal with plans to open a hardware store. He's less a good guy than a control freak. In his last act as marshal, he hangs a horse thief without...
Sage, the new COO of Tata Technologies, the automotive-software division of India's largest conglomerate, is no stranger to the world stage. During his two-decade career at IBM, he not only helped design a Mercedes plant in Alabama but also merged GM's information technology with its South Korean partner, Daewoo Motors. At Tata, Sage plans to cash in on outsourcing; a group of Tata engineers is already writing code for GM and Chrysler. A carpenter's grandson, Sage, 51, leaves behind more than IBM as he departs for India; he now has to sell the log cabin...
...still as a painting. Indeed, Rosemary Laing's latest suite of photographs, One Dozen Unnatural Disasters in the Australian Landscape, sits charmingly alongside a new exhibition of the colonial painter John Glover. If his A View of the Artist's House and Garden, 1835, shows how Glover tried to plant a corner of England in the wilds of Tasmania, so Laing's Burning Ayer #1, 2003, illustrates a similar impulse to Europeanize the Outback. Here the photographer has shot a mountain of Ikea-type furniture dusted in ocher and shaped like Uluru - a supremely surreal image: Laing had the mountain...