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...going," he says; he worked for several months before completing the series. Botero, 73, says artists have for too long abandoned warfare to photojournalists. Picasso's 1937 masterpiece Guernica became the most lasting image of the Spanish Civil War, for example, yet there is no great art depicting the Vietnam War, he says - or, until now, the war in Iraq. Botero's paintings and charcoal drawings will be unveiled in June at Rome's Palazzo Venezia, as part of a retrospective of his work, which will then travel to Germany, Greece and the U.S. But so far, the Abu Ghraib...
...floodplains of Soc Trang Province in Vietnam's Mekong Delta are a maze of rivers and canals dotted with villages so impoverished that local farmers earn less than $1 a day. It is not an obvious place to seek a fortune, but capitalism finds a way. Steering his ramshackle boat along the Ke Sat River, Nguyen Van Hon operates a floating sundries distributorship...
That's a message that until recently only a few companies had received. The Anglo-Dutch firm Unilever, for example, has been successfully selling household products in developing countries for more than a decade. Unilever's Vietnam subsidiary alone saw sales rise 23% last year to more than $300 million because of aggressive efforts to reach remote parts of the country through an extensive network of more than 100,000 independent sales representatives such as Hon. "People want to look good, whether they're rich or poor," explains Arijit Ghose, marketing manager for Unilever Vietnam. "I've been to tiny...
...Google the words "Ann Coulter lies," you will drown in results. But I didn't find many outright Coulter errors. One of the most popular alleged mistakes pinging around the Web is from her appearance on Canadian TV news in January, when Coulter asserted that "Canada sent troops to Vietnam." Interviewer Bob McKeown said she was wrong. "Indochina?" Coulter tried. McKeown said no. Finally, Coulter said haltingly, "I'll get back to you." "Coulter never got back to us," McKeown triumphantly noted, "but for the record, like Iraq, Canada sent no troops to Vietnam." What he didn't mention...
...home, clothing, and food as “Somewhere over the Rainbow” played in the background. The actors encouraged students to apply for the 2006 Aid Expedition to Southeast Asia through the Catalyst Foundation, an international volunteer organization dedicated to helping children in Vietnam...