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...sovereign so uniformly and usefully beloved as King George. His grandmother Queen Victoria, as most people have forgotten, emphatically was not popular throughout her reign. For years after she married German Prince Albert, his extreme unpopularity and her impetuous flouting of her Prime Ministers made the Crown a target for protests and lampoons. After Albert's death his widow's frantic seclusion, her transports of grief for years on end and her eventual recluse neglect of the Crown's public functions made Victoria for a time almost hated by subjects who rightly considered England's living...
Trager admits that this line wasn’t the best way to sell his conservatism—especially when the target of his affection had a soft-spot for feminist causes...
...fair, Lenovo does gain some benefits from its foray abroad. Lenovo's new CEO will be the highly regarded IBM veteran Stephen Ward, who will steer the business from Lenovo's new headquarters in Armonk, New York?a convenient location from which to target the U.S. market. The breadth of Lenovo's product line will improve, too: it will offer clients IBM's upscale laptops, in addition to its own line of cheap desktop computers. And then there's the IBM name. "They are going to ride the coattails of the IBM brand," says Bryan Ma, a Singapore-based analyst...
...there have been three significant developments among Southeast Asian terrorist groups. First, local jihadists are behaving like al-Qaeda, from which they take their inspiration. Between 2002 and 2004, Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the regional group closest to al-Qaeda, conducted three mass-fatality suicide attacks against Western targets, including the bombing of nightclubs in Bali. The Abu Sayyaf group bombed a superferry in February 2004 in the Philippines, the worst maritime terrorist attack in history. And, in 2003, Singaporean and Indonesian authorities disrupted an al-Qaeda-style operation by a J.I. cell to hijack an Aeroflot plane from Bangkok...
...addition to developing the ability to target terrorist operational capabilities, governments must also take aim at the ideological wellsprings of terrorism. Regional governments and institutions can work together with the Muslim community and religious leaders to marginalize the radicals' message. Furthermore, they must seek to resolve existing and emerging regional conflicts, such as those in southern Philippines and southern Thailand. So long as such conflicts persist, with the perception that Muslims are suffering persecution, existing and new radical groups will find it easy to recruit members. For the governments of Southeast Asia, there is no agenda item so important...