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Tom Russell
Associate Editor

I’m Tom Russell and have worked at Furniture/Today since August 2003. Since then, I have had covered the international side of the business from a logistics and sourcing standpoint. Since then, I also have visited several furniture trade shows and manufacturing plants in Asia, which has helped me gain some perspective about the industry in that part of the world. As I continue covering the import side of the business, I look forward to building on that knowledge base through conversations with industry officials and future overseas plant tours overseas. From time to time, I will file news and other industry perspectives on-line and, as always, welcome your response to these Web postings. (to view or add public comments click on "Add your Comment" below each blog post)


Monday, June 19, 2006

In early March, just before the Malaysian International Furniture Fair, a report ran in The New York Times with this headline: “Muslim-Led Protesters Rage Against Bush on His India Visit.”


The story described how anti-Bush protests in Mumbai, India, led by Muslim groups and leftist political parties, drew crowds between 250,000 and 700,000, a staggering figure when you consider it’s larger than the population of midsized U.S. cities. An accompanying photo illustrated those disturbing proportions — the crowd filled the frame of an aerial shot.


The story also described people defacing the U.S. flag and voicing angry anti-U.S. sentiments. One 25-year-old student said he would use a suicide bomb against Bush if he could, and ...Read More





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