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...ranged in size from five to 30 people each. The groups met regularly from the beginning of the year. A large e-mail collective allowed them to share ideas and dilemmas with fellow activists around the world. Tasks ranged from crucial fund raising to communicating with the "corporate media." Caravan tackled how to get affinity groups into town and use the trip to spread the Mobilization's message. Permitted Action organized the legal rallies (as opposed to civil disobedience-or direct action). Logistics faced the dilemma of finding as many as 30,000 places for people to sleep...
Gerald Ford came back from World War II, after a couple of brushes with death in the Pacific, determined to nudge the world toward peace. He climbed aboard history's caravan in 1948, when he won a Michigan seat in Congress; then he held on for the full ride. The record of that journey is two-dimensional now, in pictures and cartoons tacked up on the wall of his quiet office along the Rancho Mirage, Calif., fairways. But all that history is alive in his mind despite his 86 years--or maybe because of them--and it tumbles...
During an interview with TIME last Friday, as he led a bus caravan across eastern Iowa--moving through the most liberal part of the state, enjoying some boisterous rallies--Bradley was, as usual, impossible to read. He was either hoping the world might yet come around to his way of thinking or resigned to the prospect that it would not, or both. What was unmistakable was his Zenlike calm. "The key thing is to find ways to make the positive powerful enough that it absorbs the negative energy that comes from politics as usual, which is what we're dealing...
However, the most indirect, though by no means benign, gift of the Khan was the plague. Originating in the jungles of southern China and Burma, bubonic plague traveled with Mongol armies and then from caravan to caravan till it reached the Crimea in 1347. From there it would take a third of all Europeans. Bereft of labor and talent, the fledgling nation states were pressed to maximize tax collection, bureaucracy and state control of the force of arms, leading to the heightened competitiveness of the West just as Europe's ships sailed for the riches of a distant empire...
Safra, listed in Forbes magazine as the world's 199th richest person, was scion of a banking family that built its first fortune financing the Ottoman Empire caravan trade. Safra made his mark adhering to the old-fashioned banking-business model of securing deposits and then investing them in safe, modest-yielding assets. The secretive billionaire had long been known as a generous contributor to Jewish causes around the world. Last week he was on the verge of wrapping up his life's work, the sale of Republic National and Safra Republic holdings to HSBC Holdings, Britain's largest bank...