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...best we can do; since we have arrived, we have nowhere else to go. We may end up "secure and self- absorbed," suffering from "the boredom of peace and prosperity," devoid of the "striving spirit" that gives humanity its sense of direction. Homo politicus is on the brink of becoming "the last man" -- the ultimate couch potato, "less than a full human being, an object of contempt...
...Harvard professor who in the past seven years has emerged as the world's expert on how countries can move from controlled to free economies. Governments from Bolivia to Mongolia have called in Sachs to help them cure hyperinflation and to bring their economies back from the brink of disaster...
Algeria Teeters on the Brink...
...Russian economy has been tottering on the brink of collapse. Although no one has very accurate figures, prices increased an estimated 50% in December alone. The ruble has entered the funny-money category: it used to have an official exchange rate of 1.8 to the dollar; now a greenback fetches 110 rubles legally, and more on the black market...
Perhaps. But skeptics were quick to point out that the two Koreas had seemed on the brink of peace before -- most notably in 1972 -- and failed to achieve real reconciliation. Nor, despite Seoul's unilateral concession on nukes, did the latest agreement mention the region's most pressing security concern: the North's rapid progress toward developing a nuclear bomb. Even Washington, South Korea's closest ally, coupled its pro forma congratulations with signals of misgivings over the lack of progress on the nuclear front...