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...blue couch, and toss open an anthology of Wallace Stevens or the latest issue of the Kenyon Review. You can also go to the computer at the front of the room and contribute to the Woodberry Poetry Room Daily Poem, which was started to celebrate Lamont's 60th anniversary. Anyone who walks into the room can add a line to the poem. Too bad when your faithful blogger walked into the room, it had only this one line: "Each generation begins again the going there." The title? "Utopiaward...
Back when we had a functioning financial system, the guys who ran private-equity (PE) firms stood very near its pinnacle. "The new kings of capitalism," the Economist called them. The kings of birthday parties too: the $3 million 60th-birthday bash for Blackstone Group chief Stephen Schwarzman in February 2007 will go down in history as a glaring sign that the boom was about to go bust...
...what exactly is NATO's purpose? That question hangs like a cloud of existential angst over the Atlantic Alliance's 60th birthday celebration this weekend. The festivities, which will span the Franco-German border, are suffused with the symbolism of a Cold War that brought NATO into being but whose end left the Alliance with no clear mission or identity. Hence the title of this anniversary summit: "NATO in 2020: What Lies Ahead...
This year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the world’s largest and most powerful military alliance, will celebrate its 60th birthday. Since 1949, NATO has provided for the collective defense of the United States, Canada, and their European partners. Today, NATO’s 26 member nations collectively contribute millions of troops, trillions of dollars of material and services, and entire libraries of intelligence information to a central command in Brussels, Belgium, while NATO military units are involved in regional security and peacekeeping developments in the Western Balkans, the Gulf of Aden, and Afghanistan...
...Olympic Games - the jailing and intimidation of dissidents like Hu Jia, for example - makes even more stringent repression now the government's best option. Sinologists say a series of sensitive anniversaries that fall this year - including the 20th anniversary of the crushing of demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic - will likely contribute to the chill. Even political jockeying at the Party's top levels is stifling openings for reform, with leaders reluctant to make any bold move that might jeopardize the delicate equilibrium in a government essentially run by collective...