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...Question Lenin Asked What is not simple is Russia. That quintessentially Russian query - What is to be done? - continues to bedevil the Kremlin. The country is, after all, falling apart. The price of oil is down sharply from its high of $147 a barrel in July 2008. The markets have been badly shaken by Putin's attack on steel giant Mechel, the breakup of the oil conglomerate TNK-BP (during which the Russians none-so-subtly squeezed out their British partners), and last summer's war with Georgia. And then, of course, there's the global financial crisis, which...
...Obama guiding America back to its rightful place as a respected superpower. However, the fact that Obama is an African American is irrelevant. He was elected (I hope) because of his abilities - he is a clear thinker who will do what is required to resolve the ills that bedevil the U.S. To focus on his race demeans him and detracts from why he was elected. He is America's new leader and his race has nothing to do with it. I understand why Kenyans are rejoicing, but as Americans you should just say "We have elected the right person...
...stories that takes as its theme the Singaporean diaspora. Given that the latter has been so infrequently explored, Lions in Winter has a greater chance of being fresh than a comparable Chinese or Indian work - but instead, it lapses, at least in part, into the clichés that bedevil stories of Asian deracination...
...soil. Yet eruptions periodically kill thousands. Indonesia is also rich in minerals and oil, exporting nearly half a million barrels a day. All told, the country's buried wealth accounts for almost 30% of its total exports. But the same grinding geologic processes that make this wealth possible also bedevil Indonesia with disasters like the 2004 earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 160,000 people in Sumatra. Lusi is unlike any previous disaster, however. Unfolding in implacable slow motion, it has confounded Indonesian engineers and mystics alike. The mostly poor villagers who have lost homes and livelihoods...
...success stories like this one that will bedevil those attending the Bali conference. One of the central issues will be how to justly allocate the economic burden of reducing greenhouse emissions among industrialized countries - which have grown rich fouling the air and using up natural resources - and developing countries like China, India and Indonesia. "We have to be careful about asking developing countries to lock up their forests," says Taylor of the WWF. That is, at least until the world has found a way to make locking up the forests...