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After the conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar-who served as both the Tommy Franks and L. Paul Bremer of that operation-had serious pacification problems. A particularly violent revolt occurred in the town of Uxellodunum. "Caesar saw his work in Gaul could never be brought to a successful conclusion if similar revolts were allowed to break out," wrote his friend Aulus Hirtius. "So he decided to deter all others" by cutting off the hands of the prisoners taken at Uxellodunum and sending the survivors out across Gaul as an object lesson. Hirtius concluded, "The situation was now everywhere satisfactory...
...level of quality. The only risk would be if the consumer felt he's being fed a commercial," says Anna Prosser of Spring London, the agency that worked with Heinz on the Dinner Doctors campaign. But advertisers may be misjudging audiences. "This kind of manipulation simply fuels the consumer revolt," says David Boyle, author of the new book Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life, who notes growing interest in "services, products and discourse that are unspun, unmanipulated, unpackaged." Not in the ad business. Mark Boyd, head of a new content division at ad agency BBH, says...
...time, it might have seemed an overreaction to a little publicity. Now--after New York Times reporter Jayson Blair was caught in a string of plagiarisms and fabrications, ultimately leading to a staff revolt and the resignation of Times executive editor Howell Raines--it seems prescient. It also underscores Jurgensen's dual challenge. In the post-Blair era, any editor wants to avoid negative attention. On the other hand, she would like to raise the profile of the nation's largest paper, which has never called attention to itself in proportion to its size. For most Americans, USA Today...
...response to Palestinian terror attacks has further enhanced Hamas's popular authority. As one Israeli writer noted this week, when PA policemen in Gaza have gone, in the past, to arrest Hamas operatives, they have donned masks to avoid shame and retribution. Attacking Hamas could provoke a popular revolt against the PA in Gaza, and it remains to be seen whether the PA security forces would be willing to act against cousins and brothers who are viewed as heroes in their community...
When Jean-Pierre Garnier's proposed $36 million severance package got slapped down by angry GlaxoSmithKline shareholders two weeks ago, it looked as if the U.K's revolt against fat-cat compensation - the movement against oversize salaries and bonuses for CEOs, especially those in charge of underperforming companies - might actually have some teeth. The stage seemed set for a major showdown at the annual shareholder meeting of banking giant HSBC last Friday. A new American board member, William F. Aldinger III, was up for an eye-popping three-year, $37.5 million financial package, and shareholders would get a chance...