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Well, part of it is true. You have bad governments. But we have good governments too. We have the world's icon--Nelson Mandela. But as I always say, Europe gives me a great deal of hope. They produced a Holocaust. They produced two world wars. They produced the gulags. Sometimes people forget that in South Africa, we've been free for only about 16 years, and they're expecting miracles from us. We're not doing too badly...
What impact will the World Cup have on South Africa...
Glynis, a middle-aged artist who works in metals, takes the lead in the outrage stakes. She's mad at herself for not producing enough and at the art world for ignoring her, but she's most furious about having cancer, a rare form called mesothelioma, linked to asbestos exposure. Her family laments that illness is not bringing out the best in Glynis. She disagrees: "Maybe the best in me, to me, is hateful, vindictive and ill wishing ... I wish everyone else were ill, too." (See 10 health care reform...
...master of the tall order. Bruce Graham, who died March 6 at 84, designed two of the biggest, most famous and most starkly beautiful buildings in the world, both for Chicago, where he spent almost his entire career at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. In 1970 the 100-story John Hancock Center was a revolution in skyscraper design. Working with Skidmore's brilliant engineer Fazlur Khan, Graham conceived a tapering tower with an exterior system of structural supports, including massive X-braces that made its façade a knockout emblem of architectural force. In 1974 Graham and Khan produced another masterpiece with...
Another factor in Deere's shrinking U.S. presence is that its biggest opportunities will be overseas: 60% of its current business is in North America, 40% in the rest of the world. Allen knows that ratio will change drastically. "Emerging markets hold the most potential," Buckingham Research Group analyst Joel Tiss says. "It makes no sense to open a new dealership in Dubuque, Iowa, anymore when they could put it in Santiago, Chile, where they can do 10 times the volume." Sales in South America are expected to rise as much...