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LONDON, England — “Britain has been hit worst by the recession,” asserted my father at the dining table. Forks fell from mouths and fists emphatically banged on the table as the rest of my family rushed to violently agree. My brother vigorously traced the entire world crisis back to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s actions, while my mother gazed fretfully around the table and expressed her concern for “you kids.” Each family member offered a doomsday prediction that aimed to top the last...
Planting mango trees and banyans at the British Museum is just a cultural truth made literal: the roots of India grow deep in Britain's soil. The "Garden and Cosmos" exhibition, museum director Neil MacGregor promised when he announced it last year, would shed light on an "emerging superpower." They may not have known it at the time, but the Jodhpuri painters who depicted the worldly and otherworldly powers in both classical and radically innovative ways, foreshadowed India's role as a burgeoning global cultural heavyweight. Like modern Bollywood filmmakers and Indian writers and musicians, they recognized tradition, but took...
...powers since the dawn of modern capitalism in the 17th century has been a different story. There have been shifts in relative power, and some have led to violent conflict, but living standards have continued to improve over time, even in lands that lost the crown of most powerful - Britain being the most recent example...
...international acceptance could help build legitimacy at home. Indeed, throughout the crisis, Iran's government has shown it remains sensitive to its image on the world stage, announcing that its relations with foreign countries will depend on how they viewed the results of the disputed elections. For all its Britain-bashing, Iran has been less damning about alleged American interference, leaving the door open, perhaps, for future talks...
...Over the past two decades, farmers and fishermen have repeatedly staged violent action to denounce falling revenues - including several incidents in which French livestock farmers burned truckloads of live sheep coming in from Britain. Peeved farmers in the provinces have also repeatedly dumped improbable volumes of animal merde in front of state buildings, and in 2000, environmental catastrophe was narrowly averted when industrial workers angry about a plant closure in northern France dumped sulphuric acid into a drainage system that feeds a major river. Not to be outdone, grape growers in southern France have even resorted to "wine terrorism...