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Chances are you can't name a single central banker from the 1920s, but in their day, they were quite the celebrities, even giving false names when traveling by ocean liner in order to dodge the press. These were the men who - in the wake of WW I and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Lessons from the Great Depression | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

In any case, the widespread destruction certainly was calculated, despite contrary official reports. Not only does Israel commit such crimes against humanity, they announce them brazenly. Last October, Israel’s Northern Command General Gadi Eisenkot said to Ha’aretz reporters: “What happened in...

Author: By Nadia O. Gaber | Title: Far from Self-Defense | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

In a country where car-burning isn't a common symptom of socioeconomic unrest, news of so many automobiles being torched would be alarming - if not a sign of brewing insurrection. In France, however, word of the destruction that accompanied the evening the French call Saint-Sylvestre was met with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's New Year's Tradition: Car-Burning | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

Despite Alliot-Marie's rather upbeat depiction of the destruction, her boss - President Nicolas Sarkozy - endeavored to react in accordance with his hard-line campaign promises to impose law, order and state authority in even the most unruly French neighborhoods. But while he vigorously rallied to the side of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's New Year's Tradition: Car-Burning | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

It's an emotional blackmail that says to people, this is what we have experienced, so shut up and help us... When the sages created the national holiday of Tisha Be'av, they made it the single day on which we commemorate all the traumas of our history, from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Jewish People Survive Without an Enemy? | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

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