Archive for the 'Kyrgyzstan' Category

Industry On Parade, where are you when we need you the most?

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

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James Hill for The New York Times
VALUABLE TERRITORY Guards in a central square in Bishek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, which is regularly visited by Russian and American suitors.
By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
Published: July 25, 2009
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The first high-level customers to arrive at this stop on the Silk Road in July were two of Vladimir V. […]

One day, I shall manufacture a shoe named the Turbo-Akron.

Monday, September 11th, 2006

“Major Metzger vanished in civilian clothes while on an off-duty shopping trip with co-workers at a department store in central Bishkek.”–New York Times

This is the most disturbing line from the Times story about the 3-day-abduction of an Air Force Major for whom the military is conducting an investigation. I had felt a twinge of jingoism–not […]