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TOMMY FRANKS Yes. America remains very proud of and very thankful to our sons and daughters serving in Iraq and around the world in the cause of freedom. The events of 9/11 taught us a valuable lesson: ignoring terrorism will not make the problem go away. The sacrifices of our military members and their families are giving Iraqis a chance for freedom. And a free Iraq serves not only Iraqis. It will stand as a model in the Middle East, a model that represents to millions of people that there is an alternative to terrorism...
...entered the pantheon of the world's great explorers. The admiral has been adopted in his homeland as a symbol of an old, outward-looking, adventurous China?all things, perhaps, which it is once more. But the memory that China once traded with the world is not the only lesson of Zheng He's life. Here's another: when he died, so did China's global ambitions. Mandarins decided that oceangoing voyages were a waste of time and money; soon the great naval shipyards in Nanjing had been broken up, and China retreated into a self-absorbed attitude of mind...
...cuts. In such an environment, Renault appears to be defying gravity by promising ambitious results without the pain of slashing labor costs. Indeed, Ghosn is pledging to increase annual car sales by 800,000 units by 2009, double operating profit margins and improve product and brand quality. "The lesson of the Nissan revival plan was, What's vital is the result, not the precise means of attaining it," says Ghosn, 52. "We've analyzed the opportunities and potentials at Renault and made clear commitments on the results we'll deliver." The end result, he predicts, will be the "most profitable...
...showed De Heer in Arnhem Land. "We need 10 canoes," said the actor, who had starred in De Heer's previous film, The Tracker (2002). Arriving at a narrative that satisfied both the Yolngu's desire for traditional storytelling and Western audiences' need for plot and pace proved a lesson in cultural navigation. Many Yolngu neither speak English nor understand movie-making: "It was conceptually outside their thinking about the world," says De Heer. The Yolgnu's only requirement was that the film respect their pre-contact culture; only through the lens of the Dreamtime could De Heer explore...
...could see it burning,” he said. “There was a lot of smoke coming out.” Barksdale said that similar fires could be prevented if smokers smoked farther from the building. “The lesson from this is that you need to make sure that you’re away from the house when you’re smoking,” he said. —Staff writer Reed B. Rayman can be reached at rrayman@fas.harvard.edu