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...kava ceremony to funeral song. In many Pacific cultures, the moon is also seen as a female deity, and in Vula womanhood is worshiped just as fully, from the languorous flick of a maiden's hair to the ribald jokes of a group of washerwomen, whose laughter becomes the ebb and flow of lagoon life...
...eyes of the rest of the world, U.S. commitment tends to ebb much more than it flows." MARK MALLOCH BROWN, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General, criticizing U.S. attitudes on multilateralism...
...Fair Trade for All Your capsule history of economic globalization [March 27] outlined the ebb and flow of trade among nations over the centuries. The worst feature of this century's globalization is that it is fast dividing the world into front-yard and backyard countries. To survive in the new world, huge populations living in the second category are being forced to take newly outsourced jobs that are at odds with their culture and undercut their self-esteem. The anger of people whose countries have only superficially benefited from globalization is rising. Jamal A. Khan Islamabad...
...schools they attend to reach such lofty heights are prestigious. Their grasp of the realities of the average worker can only be patchy. That inevitably results in social eruptions. Valda Lynen Vallauris, France Fair Trade for All Your capsule history of economic globalization [March 27] outlined the ebb and flow of trade among nations over the centuries. I believe international investment is often inhibited because of the lack of a business structure that is fair and transparent for all participants. The worst feature of this century's globalization is that it is fast dividing the world into front-yard...
...money; soon the great naval shipyards in Nanjing had been broken up, and China retreated into a self-absorbed attitude of mind that it would not lose for half a millennium. It's a cautionary note, a reminder that the waves of trade that knit us together can ebb as well as flow. There is a famous passage in The Economic Consequences of the Peace, written by John Maynard Keynes in 1920, which every student of globalization knows by heart. Keynes describes life as it existed in 1914, when a man in London could travel the world freely, invest wherever...