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...Syria's historical position at the crossroads of empires explains the multicultural feel of the displays. The museum's classical collection could be housed in any European city, with its Greek gods and Roman mosaics. But turn a corner and you stroll past a row of medieval, Central Asian figurines, displayed in one of many Islamic galleries. There are also linens rescued from Palmyra, with their dyes still visible despite being over 1,800 years...
...meantime, just as central banks in the U.S. and euro zone have pumped cheap cash into money markets to boost liquidity in recent weeks, the Bank of England announced plans to inject almost $30 billion into the U.K. system after the credit squeeze nudged up the rates banks were charging each other to borrow. The longer those rates remain high, the more mortgage providers will be forced to pass on the costs to homeowners, increasing the chances of a consumer spending slowdown and a weakening economy. That prospect - and the dramatic half percentage point...
Rock and freedom--if not necessarily sex and drugs--got a boost in Lebanon in 2005, during what outsiders called the Cedar Revolution. Huge crowds gathered in central Beirut to demand an end to the Syrian occupation and the country's sectarian divisions. But the creative and intellectual frenzy that accompanied the Syrian withdrawal was cut short after the country's ruling sectarian political class co-opted the Cedar Revolution and turned Lebanon into a battlefield between regional superpowers. Spurred by last summer's war with Israel and by the current struggle between Iran and the U.S. over Lebanon...
...moment, I think, but people. If there's a central character in my book, it's my mother. She was determined that there would be no limit on my aspirations. My father made sure that I understood that even if I brought home an A, somehow I was expected to do better next time...
Greenspan is the first to proclaim that his job was made dramatically easier by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the technology-fueled transformation of global business and the long decline in the price of oil and other commodities. He was not a magician, just a very competent central-bank chief with a knack for being in the right place at the right time (not only at the Fed: as a young man, he studied music alongside future saxophone great Stan Getz, learned statistics from the guy who devised the Index of Leading Economic Indicators and thought his first deep...