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...absence of such principles, everything becomes a power struggle. There is now a demand for the study of non-Western civilization, nonmale, nonwhite. Aristotle is seen only as a white Western male. So is Karl Marx. My book was written by a white, Western male, which means, in this kind of shorthand, there must be something wrong with it. One knows that the charge of sexism exists, and if you're called a sexist, it's a kind of crime. It's like the old days in the 1950s, when people had to be careful about things that very powerful...
Instead, U.S. "overconsumption" saved the day, providing demand for the world's goods and keeping emerging economies from imploding due to their own domestic consumption collapse, high debt, and excess production capacity. Our consumption was fueled first by a strong domestic stock market, and when that gave way, by falling interest rates and ample liquidity supplied by the Fed. Still, we suffered a brutal bear market and a recession before things began to improve in early...
...unilateral withdrawal of the demand for goods resulting from a significant rise in our savings rate, unaccompanied by a proportional increase in consumption outside the U.S., would put us on a path to pain again. As my good friend Paul McCulley, the endlessly creative monetary guru at PIMCO, has said, the rest of the world needs to shed the hair shirt of denial and embrace hedonism...
...over the economy, his administration's bungled handling of the SARS epidemic, and its attempt to bulldoze through the legislature antisubversion laws that many Hong Kongers felt could be used to stifle dissent. The discontent spilled into the streets on July 1, 2003, when half a million marched to demand that Tung go. China's leadership, which had been informed by Tung that the protest would be small and well contained, was not amused. A year later, after Beijing ruled out the direct election of Tung's successor, around the same number marched again, this time for greater democracy. Suddenly...
...abuse, by design and by neglect" [Feb. 14]. It is inexcusable that the U.S. did not provide adequate medical services and supplies for prisoners. All the abuses and atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib must continue to be reported to the American public. U.S. citizens need to know and to demand an accounting and restitution by our officials. Karen A. Netwal St. Paul, Minnesota...