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But even if the cream of the Bush Administration had shown up, they would not have shaken the firm conviction in Davos that, in the wake of the fiasco in Iraq and the mauling Republicans received in the midterm elections, the U.S. is no longer the all-powerful hegemony, the...
Demography As Destiny Everyone arrived in Davos ready to talk about climate change, and plenty did. But for me, another meta-theme - much less evident on the formal program - kept cropping up in interesting ways. That was the idea that, as population continues to grow in Asia, Africa and the...
The facts, trumpeted with evident pride by the French statistics office last month, are impressive. French women had an estimated 830,900 babies last year, more than in any year since 1981. While the average age of French mothers at childbirth continues to rise, they are still younger than in...
In 1715 a young Italian Jesuit missionary, Giuseppe Castiglione, arrived in Peking and, like other Jesuits of his time, soon went to work for the Emperor, Kang xi. For a half-century, under the name Lang Shining, Castiglione served as a court painter, brilliantly blending Western and Eastern styles. Lang...
The downed C-123K had been used in 1984 by the CIA and the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration in a sting operation designed to show that the Sandinistas were dealing in cocaine. The CIA's hand is evident in other secret air operations related to the Nicaragua conflict. Southern Air...