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...form of $3 billion in loans that don't have to be repaid if the A380 fails to turn a profit. Boeing gets indirect handouts through its lucrative defense contracts, but critics say they aren't sufficient to level the playing field, and U.S. officials occasionally threaten to punish Airbus. The political equation may be changing, though. "U.S. companies are thrilled to be a part of the A380," says Mark Sullivan of engine maker Pratt & Whitney...
...knows Singlish is trendy, it's using the soft sell. Naturally, much of this has to do with semantics. Says SGEM head David Wong: "SGEM is not a campaign, it's a movement. In Singapore, you associate campaigns with the message that if you trespass, we're going to punish you. A movement is different. We want to adopt a more lighthearted approach." This lighthearted approach spawned the recent SGEM Festival, a hapless exercise in unintended comic surrealism. Driving home from work, I would hear 'NSync-style pop jingles on the radio telling me to "speak clearly." On the cartoonish...
...decision is questioned, and every activity, no matter how much fun, is grounds for moaning and criticism. Why can’t we do long jumps over the coffee tables in the lobby? Why can’t we buy swords at the Renaissance Festival? Do you have to punish me for starting a food fight in the cafeteria? Why do we have to go to bed? Why can’t we hold our breaths until we pass out? I’ve decided that some sick individual must go around America sucking out all the common sense from...
Ryan acknowledges that the solution is not perfect—but says no attempt to punish war crimes...
Discipline and Punish...