



The envoy says the words the chamber wanted — and the king walks out and calls the day a triumph. He tells the realm the fight is so lopsided a referee would have stopped it. He opens a factory the same week and sets the two images against each other. And the numbers, he says, have turned: three to one against the whole enterprise.
Readers' Corner
Letters from the readership on Week 232. Pick a pen name — no account needed.
Opening the mailbag…