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...opening press conference of the Public Eye on Davos, an umbrella NGO group, those on the platform were asked who the intellectual leaders and heroes of the anti-globalization movement might be. Apart from praise for the writings of Nobel laureate and former chief economist of the World Bank Joe Stiglitz, there was an embarrassing silence. But the critics of the globalization won?t get far until they can make a case for their own way of looking at the world...
...uprising against Israel. He insists that his "Death to Israel" rants, which he has since dropped, were "political rhetoric against Israeli oppression" and not a call to violence against civilians. But terrorists did visit his conferences. Among them: Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, later convicted in the WTC bombing, and economist Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, who helped direct al-Arian's U.S.F.-based World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE) and turned up in Syria in 1995 as head of Islamic Jihad...
...addition to the sessions with Prime Minister Koizumi and former and current finance ministers, Summers met with members of the Japanese royal family, including Crown Princess Masako ’85. Summers gave Masako, who trained under Summers’ colleague, Harvard economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, a baby-sized Harvard tee-shirt for her newborn baby...
...subjects. On Thursday, for example, Martin Wolf of the Financial Times moderated the annual update on the world economy, with a cast of analysts from China, Japan, the U.S., Britain and Germany. For those convinced that a strong recovery in the U.S. is already under way, Stephen Roach, chief economist of Morgan Stanley, had a pitcher of cold water ready, pointing out that no economy had ever been able to maintain a buoyant recovery from a recession while running such an enormous deficit on the current account, and while household and corporate balance sheets are overloaded with historically-high levels...
...Economist notes that "the unique attraction of Guantanamo Bay? is not its remote location or shark-infested waters, but that it seems to lie beyond the jurisdiction of America's federal courts, or any other court system for that matter." And like much of the European media, it finds Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's comments that "I do not feel the slightest concern at their treatment; they are being treated vastly better than they treated anybody else" as an unacceptable legal standard. The British magazine offers a thoughtful assessment of the various legal options open to the U.S. and concludes with...