Word: rebellion
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What happens when a booming consumer culture collides with an emerging counterculture? In China the result is linglei chic?advertising that associates products with the images of rebellion and individualism. The message is clear: buy me, and you too can be cool...
...week is out, Tony Blair will discover whether he can remain Prime Minister, and if he can, whether the office is still worth holding. First there's the culmination of weeks of feverish campaigning, arm twisting and strategic concessions by Blair's Education Minister to contain a massive Labour rebellion over plans to increase university budgets by making students pay more. A loss on this bill would mean a central plank of Blair's push to rejuvenate British education - and his broader drive to find ways of modernizing public services without raising taxes - would stand rejected by his own M.P.s...
...pull back into Russian orbit the small nations that broke away from the U.S.S.R. in 1991. The prize: Georgia - tiny, strategic, near bankrupt and chaotic. One problem: the U.S. insists that it is committed to the country's independence and territorial integrity. CHECHNYA: A promise to crush the rebellion in the breakaway republic brought Putin to power in 2000. But guerrillas are still defying him: last week a suicide bomber brought mayhem to a street less than 100 m from the Kremlin. The most likely scenario is stasis: Chechnya will continue to bleed and bombs will explode throughout Russia...
...appears to suggest that for those waging daily attacks on U.S. forces from Mosul in the north to Najaf in the south, protecting Saddam Hussein may not have been the first operational priority. His capture also raises a dilemma for those insurgents looking to broaden the appeal of their rebellion - Saddam may have been more use to them as a symbol of the past, rather than as a captive of the enemy. The extent to which the insurgency appears to be about Saddam himself may set limits on its growth: Many Iraqis oppose the occupation, but very few want Saddam...
...United States is serious about reducing its dependence on Middle East oil, its best prospect is this unassuming Caspian nation, which could hold the key for our future in oil and natural gas. But more importantly, if Georgia continues on its current track of escalating infighting and rebellion, it will surely become a haven for terrorist groups, attracted by the weak law enforcement and rich resources—a situation no one in the world can afford...