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...pillar of liberal education, world citizenship is old news. What has changed is that there is now an assumption that the interplay between national and world citizenship often occurs in insolubly conflictual ways. This wave of globalization has inspired a complicated cultural and institutional resistance to American(-style) economic dominance. We all know this. People used to be surprised by local resistances; no one should be anymore. (Haven’t you seen Braveheart or Gladiator or King Arthur or Troy...
...Victorian fishing town of San Remo. Like the other Venice works, it is carved from the light, blond wood of the rubber tree, jelutong. Any paler and it would disappear into the walls. Up close, the forensic detail - a lobster springs up with the alacrity of an ocean wave, the rind of a lemon dangles spellbound over the table's edge - can send shivers up spines...
That would also explain the wave after wave of superpremiums appearing on both coasts. Last year's buzziest brand was Ciroc--distilled from two varieties of grapes commonly used to make Armagnac--which is a joint venture between LVMH (owner of the champagnes Moet and Dom Perignon) and Diageo, which also owns the decidedly down-market Smirnoff. Despite Ciroc's popularity, Diageo plans to increase production from 53,000 cases to only 85,000 cases next year. "It's a question of philosophy," says Efren Puente, the brand's senior manager. "It's not about mass messages. It's about...
Just after 1 p.m. the explosions came. "A wave of burning hot air hit me," Kasumova says. "I saw two severed legs lying next to me." Through the smoke, she saw children climbing out a window. She and Timur clambered through the opening and ran. "The guerrillas opened fire on us, and I saw one child go down and then another...
...Homes, a manufactured-housing company in Tennessee that had sales of $1.2 billion in 2003. This year Clayton, in turn, spent $373 million to acquire Oakwood Homes, which offers a mix of modular and more traditionally manufactured homes. The lower end of the prefab industry is recovering after a wave of defaults resulting from overzealous lending. With interest rates climbing, more customers may now opt for relatively inexpensive manufactured homes. Recently, the damage caused by Hurricane Charley boosted stocks of companies that specialize in manufactured homes...