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...Could such a moment be upon us again? Are the walls around national economies being built once more? From the numbers, the argument seems absurd. World trade is growing healthily, by over 7% a year. The U.N. Commission on Trade and Development estimates that the value of global flows of foreign direct investment grew by a remarkable 29% in 2005. Yet a quick look around the planet might lead to the impression that globalization is in crisis. Ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington next month, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told China that it must shape...
...this “virtue,” while not exclusive to men, goes hand-in-hand with the different roles to which men and women are better suited. For instance, Mansfield said, men are more abstract and tend not to let their personal biases and emotions obstruct an argument. “All of the greatest philosophers have been men,” he said. “You’re so charming,” interjected Wolf, “but I’m profoundly offended.” Mansfield also said...
This column is a message to you that we are listening, and that we care. We don’t expect you to agree with every decision we make, or every argument that will be made in this space on alternate Mondays. But we do want to communicate the logic behind our position, and more importantly to engage in a dialogue with you about these issues...
...find answers has just burgeoned," says Roberts of his students at Stanford, "but my impression is that their ability to write clear, focused and extended narratives has eroded somewhat." Says Koonz: "What I find is paragraphs that make sense internally, but don't necessarily follow a line of argument...
...accept the argument that the escalating sectarian violence in Iraq has nothing to do with 24 years of Sunni oppression of Shi'ites and Kurds under Saddam but is the result of the incompetent U.S. invasion. What about the passion to avenge atrocities committed by the former regime? The U.S. can't be blamed for that. Still, Iraqis are probably better off with a dictator, somebody to force them to get along. They thrive on dictatorships and blood feuds...