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...ease with which the Iranian regime has shrugged off those sanctions bodes ill for future success, at least so long as hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is President. If anything, Iran seemed to ratchet up its defiance a month ago, when Ali Larijani, a diplomat whom European negotiators viewed as a relative moderate, was replaced as chief nuclear negotiator by a close political ally of Ahmadinejad. Sources in Tehran say that switch could not have been made without the approval of Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei - a discouraging fact for those in the West who had hoped Khamenei might be tiring...
...were to create a model for Globalization Man, he'd look a lot like Francois Woo. Woo's surname and taste for Cantonese food reflect his family's origins, three generations ago, in Guangdong province in southern China. His first name and French accent reflect the European culture of his adopted home on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. His children are at college in Perth, Boston and, soon, London. And his $200 million-per-year business is a microcosm of globalization in action. It buys raw cotton from Asia and Africa, ships it to Mauritius, spins it into yarn...
...since independence in 1968, ensures that growth lifts everyone. Mauritius is the only African nation to have eradicated malaria or provided free education and health care, and HIV/AIDS infects just 435 people a year. There have been no coups (Mauritius has no army), and its ethnicities--Indian, African, Chinese, European--are a model of integration...
...Denmark has achieved its success has made it a darling of European social democrats and American liberals, and the country has been overrun lately with visiting journalists, academics and politicians looking for insights. One of the things a visitor discovers, though, is that Denmark's size and homogeneity--5.4 million people, of whom all but 478,000 are of Danish ancestry--are crucial to how the economy works. "We've been one small nation for 1,000 years," says Hans Skov Christensen, who as director general of the Confederation of Danish Industries negotiates the nationwide bargaining agreements between management...
...nominate Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France. After he was elected, he said, "Every oppressed woman is a Frenchwoman as of now," and we should hold him to that. He is the first European in decades to reach out to the U.S. For the world to be greener and more peaceful and especially for the Western world to stay together, we need a voice of leadership from Europe reaching...