WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara died on Monday aged 93. He will be remembered most as the leading architect of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. "His age just caught up with him," his wife Diana told Reuters. "He was not ill. He died peacefully in his sleep." McNamara also forged brilliant careers in industry and international finance, but his painful legacy remains Vietnam. More than anyone else except possibly President Lyndon Johnson, McNamara became to anti-war critics the symbol of a failed policy that left more than 58,000 U.S. troops dead and the nation bogged down in a seemingly endless disaster in Southeast Asia. Pundits came to call the conflict "McNamara's War."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara died on Monday aged 93. He will be remembered most as the leading architect of America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
"His age just caught up with him," his wife Diana told Reuters. "He was not ill. He died peacefully in his sleep."
McNamara also forged brilliant careers in industry and international finance, but his painful legacy remains Vietnam.
More than anyone else except possibly President Lyndon Johnson, McNamara became to anti-war critics the symbol of a failed policy that left more than 58,000 U.S. troops dead and the nation bogged down in a seemingly endless disaster in Southeast Asia.
Pundits came to call the conflict "McNamara's War."
A great documentary. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
(Available at TPB). Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Snakes and the number 13 are not usually considered good luck charms, but Condi and her 12 serpent siblings have brought happiness to a couple in Lebanon. Pierre Rizk and his Sri Lankan wife Sapna have no children but are living happily with their 13 snakes in a two-room apartment east of Beirut.
Pierre Rizk and his Sri Lankan wife Sapna have no children but are living happily with their 13 snakes in a two-room apartment east of Beirut.
The Rizks form a multicultural family -- their pets hail from India, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Arizona -- and have named one of their snakes 'Condoleezza' in a tribute to former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "I really admire her for her leadership," Rizk told AFP in his small home, a yellow python slithering around his neck and chest. "She has so much intelligence, responsibility, and energy -- just like the energy of snakes," he added.
"I really admire her for her leadership," Rizk told AFP in his small home, a yellow python slithering around his neck and chest.
"She has so much intelligence, responsibility, and energy -- just like the energy of snakes," he added.
RIGA (Reuters) - Ready to give your soul for a loan in these difficult economic times? In Latvia, where the crisis has raged more than in the rest of the European Union, you can. Such a deal is being offered by the Kontora loan company, whose public face is Viktor Mirosiichenko, 34. Clients have to sign a contract, with the words "Agreement" in bold letters at the top. The client agrees to the collateral, "that is, my immortal soul." Mirosiichenko said his company would not employ debt collectors to get its money back if people refused to repay, and promised no physical violence. Signatories only have to give their first name and do not show any documents. "If they don't give it back, what can you do? They won't have a soul, that's all," he told Reuters in a basement office, with one desk, a computer and three chairs.
Such a deal is being offered by the Kontora loan company, whose public face is Viktor Mirosiichenko, 34.
Clients have to sign a contract, with the words "Agreement" in bold letters at the top. The client agrees to the collateral, "that is, my immortal soul."
Mirosiichenko said his company would not employ debt collectors to get its money back if people refused to repay, and promised no physical violence. Signatories only have to give their first name and do not show any documents.
"If they don't give it back, what can you do? They won't have a soul, that's all," he told Reuters in a basement office, with one desk, a computer and three chairs.
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i think it's the russian sense of droll. the religions have been doing the same scam since god was young.
next we'll have lucifer offering loans for solar panels on yer roof... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
PFRIM. Nix leichter, als das. Auf Zehn Jahr' schließt er meistens seine Contract', da machen wir das Ding so. Neun Jahr leben wir recht flott und fidel und in Zehnten Jahr geh'n wir auf Rom, nacher is der Teufel erst noch der G'foppte.
But I suppose it could be borrowed indefinitely.
