"Karim Sadjadpour, an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the image of Neda and other women at the protests showed the difference from the 1979 revolution. "The iconic pictures from the revolution 30 years ago were bearded men. This shows the new face of Iran -- the young women who are the vanguards of Iran."
"Anne Sibert and I have pointed to the dangers of the inconsistent quartet: a small open economy with a large internationally exposed sector, its own `small' non-global reserve currency and limited fiscal spare capacity. Apart from Iceland, which imploded, this category includes Switzerland and possibly the UK. Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium have 3 of the four inconsistent characteristics. But for their membership in the Euro Area, their banking systems might have been toast already. For the -US banks and most Euro Area banks, the banks top managers and boards know, however, that they are too big to fail but not too big to save. And they play that card for all it is worth to extract the maximum amount of resources from the hapless tax payer."
A simple model/account of how the wheels fell off the global financial system.
"For the first time in their lives, people feel sort of useless. All of a sudden, you can go to lunch for two and a half hours and really not be missed. It's a blow to the ego. You're talking about people who have never really failed."
From a NYT article on legal firms that face down-sizing. I guess I feel some sympathy for these people; but its difficult to be sympathetic to the plight of lawyers as opposed to the situation of say auto-workers, migrant workers, coal-miners.
At Tiananmen on June 4th:"China's national flag fluttered alongside the Malaysian flag, in honour of a visit by the country's Prime Minister Najib Razak. "
The flags of two countries that abhor press freedom.
He is not the first guru to turn his back on monastic life. cf Chogyam Trunpa. Dropping out of Kopan Monastery must be akin to dropping out of Harvard?
"Sex is a taboo subject in China but people really need to have more access to information about it," the park's manager, Lu Xiaoqing told the China Daily state newspaper. "
True but ironic when you consider that there are over a billion Chinese on the planet.
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