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...stalemate triggered international bickering, with Australia, Indonesia and Norway all refusing to take responsibility for the passengers. It also sparked fierce debate in Australia, where illegal immigration has been a hot-button topic during this election year. Most Australians supported Prime Minister John Howard's hardline tack, which was criticized by churches and human-rights groups...
...confrontation with Albanian nationalists. Although it made limited attempts to seal the Kosovo border, across which all of the NLA's weapons, supplies and personnel initially passed, once the guerrillas had proved their ability to survive the clumsy counterinsurgency efforts of the Macedonian security forces, NATO changed its tack, turning the "terrorists" of three months ago into the key partner of today's peace deal...
...Swissair seems ready to try another tack. Last month, new (since March) CEO Mario Corti publicly repudiated Swissair's costly expansion strategy, saying the "fragmentation of the group created a difficult-to-manage structure, often at the expense of the customer and causing dilution of the core Swissair brand." He vowed to slash the company's $4.4 billion debt by $1.7 billion over the next 18 months...
They are among the most foreshortened landscapes ever painted, and they have a weird if harmless sense of danger to them, as though all those ticky-tack houses and stern, vertical condos and loops of thruway were about to slide down the canvas and rumple up in heaps at the bottom--fulfilling, in miniature, the prophecy that has always been made for the quake zone. But this prospect feels remote. Thiebaud has never tried to read a sense of Expressionist angst into the California coast...
...please Beijing's leaders, he will be doing his country a disservice. Tsang's remarks suggest moderation but even he left open the possibility of a future ban. "We are not legislating," he said last week, a statement that covers just the present, meaning the government might shift tack at any time. That would please the ignorant and the sycophants in China and Hong Kong...