Word: switzerland
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...very long time. Isn't the Shi'ite-Sunni battle the same religious trivia as the Northern Ireland Protestant-Catholic mess that has been going on for so many years? How could these issues be so important that one can kill one's neighbor over them? Jeff White, Kilchberg, Switzerland...
Dealers like Meyers and his partner Evan Snyderman are setting up shop at fairs such as Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, and its newer outpost in Miami, which two years ago spawned a smaller venue called Design Miami. The major auction houses such as Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips de Pury are cashing in too, staging big sales of 20th and 21st century design. The Christie's December 2006 sale of 20th century decorative art and design--the largest of the season--raked in $23.7 million, breaking all records...
...very long time. Isn't the Shi'ite-Sunni battle the same religious trivia as the Northern Ireland Protestant-Catholic mess that has been going on for so many years? How could these issues be so important that one can kill one's neighbor over them? Jeff White, KILCHBERG, SWITZERLAND...
...situations have striking similarities. Just as Switzerland, as of this March, had 170 infantry soldiers in Liechtenstein, so too did the United States, as of this February, have 140,000 Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine personnel in Iraq. Swiss troops arrived in Liechtenstein “by mistake,” just as American troops traveled to Iraq under the misguided impression that their mission there was to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction...
Admittedly, the situations also have some differences. Switzerland, as soon as it acknowledged its error, withdrew from its neighbor’s territory. The U.S.’s administration, even after four years, anywhere between 30,000 and 600,000 deaths, a shocking low point of 34-percent domestic approval of the war and a formal Congressional resolution dissenting with the administration’s recent decision to send more troops, refuses to consider withdrawal...