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...current anti-Iraq War movement in the United States, the play also provoked discourse on smaller, more personal questions. The worldly women of Troy addressed issues of women’s place in society by arguing that Helen only has power because men have made her a symbol and linked their honor to her “purity.” A final confrontation between Ulysses (Augustine “Gus” T. Hickey ’11) and Hector suggested that man manufactures the cause of war by creating his enemy and establishing him as a threat...
Eventually, Tata Motors hopes to sell a million Nanos a year. Even before it goes on sale, though, it has become an important symbol of an emerging trend in the developing world, a new brand of innovation that makes more out of less and engineers clever but cheap fixes to problems that Western companies might throw expensive technology...
...keep his profit margins from eroding. In 2005, he grabbed for an economic lifeline: he became one of the first investors in the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a special economic zone in North Korea that lies just across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), 50 km north of Seoul. Kaesong is a symbol of South Korea's so-called "Sunshine Policy,'' the effort of the country's past two Presidents to draw the North and South closer through greater economic ties. For low-tech companies such as Sunghwa, that policy seems to be paying off. "If you ask me where I think...
...lived off and on in self-imposed exile for eight years until her final return to Pakistan two months ago, the mourning has been quieter and more solemn. But the emotions are just as deep. Many of Britain's estimated 750,000 Pakistanis had embraced Bhutto as a symbol of hope for freedom and stability back home. As Britain's politicians pay tribute to a fallen leader, the country's Pakistanis are trying to come to terms with what her death could augur for their troubled homeland...
...pointless exercise. Riaz Khan, acting secretary general of the U.K. branch of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, had known her for over 30 years. "There is not a single eye that is not weeping," he says. "Even her political opponents in this country are crying. Bhutto was a symbol of unity. She was the only leader who could unite all Pakistan's four provinces. The PPP was the only party that could curb terrorism because it was the only party with the support of the common man. God forbid, I'm very scared for the future of my country...