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...arty one Whoever flies home to this minimalist pad must be high in the pecking order. FredriksonStallard designed it in solid oak with a cast-aluminum twig for Thorsten van Elten, the hip and humorous London furniture boutique. Any bird landing here is bound to know its Richard Serra from its Donald Judd. www.thorstenvanelten.com
What I call the McMafia - the new international criminal networks - now dominates a shadow economy which accounts for around 15% of the world's GDP. Inextricably bound up with straightforward criminal markets is a spiraling level of corruption throughout much of the world. For a common strategy of criminal syndicates is the "capture" or "semicapture" of a state. American and European law-enforcement agencies now categorize the West African country of Guinea-Bissau as the world's first "narcostate," a place where the levers of official power are now entirely at the disposal of operations moving cocaine from South America...
...government Vector Control Research Centre in the southern city of Pondicherry between 1975 and 1990, blames policies that concentrate on the latest scientific techniques and not enough on basic controls. "Field work is almost dead," Rajagopalan says. "These mosquitoes are sun loving. How can a shade-loving, lab-bound, white-coated scientist control the mosquitoes through research? It may be the future but millions of people in India are suffering and dying now because we're not doing the basics...
...Oppenheimer, posted on the wall of every De Beers office: LIVING UP TO DIAMONDS. Oppenheimer, one of the richest men in Africa and the third generation of Oppenheimers to run De Beers, notes, "Ultimately, people do not need to buy diamonds." That they do buy them, he says, is bound up in the emotions and events with which they are associated: love, marriage, purity. "If we behave in a way that is wrong, if we play with the image of diamonds in a way that downgrades them, we're destroying ourselves...
...hope a miracle would happen. It never did. But in the process, Ickes helped rewrite those rules into the ones that now govern the way Democrats choose a nominee. At the 1980 convention, Kennedy trailed President Jimmy Carter by more than 750 delegates, all of whom were bound by the existing rules to vote for the candidate they were pledged to. So Ickes orchestrated a floor vote on Kennedy's call to "free the delegates"--let them exercise their own judgment as to who should be the nominee--a tool that could come in handy again this year in Denver...