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...tarred Wal-Mart with criticism that 10 years earlier would have rallied black leadership against the company. Many of those opposing Wal-Mart in Chicago were black, but the presence of an equal--or greater--number of black supporters took the subject of race off the table. To the extent that it was a topic, race worked to Wal-Mart's favor in that it was used as a club to batter the unions...
...rest of Asia may not be in much better shape. Still lacking in support from domestic demand, most other Asian economies have become tightly integrated into a Chinese-centered manufacturing supply chain. To the extent that China's exports to the U.S. slow as American consumers are shaken by surging energy bills, production adjustments will ripple through Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. That's yet another manifestation of the interdependencies of globalization...
...Asia?indeed for the world?retirement is not an option. The critical question now is what impact the current surge in oil prices will have on the global economy's two great growth engines, China and the U.S. To a remarkable extent, the two economies have so far seemed bulletproof, absorbing the price hikes and steaming ahead. China grew at a shade under 9% last year and its oil consumption rose more than 15%. But due in part to its outmoded factories and lack of insulation in most buildings, China is a highly inefficient user of energy: to produce...
Well, I'd say they're not exactly political books. They're books about the intersection of private lives and public affairs, and they ask, in a way, time-honored novelistic questions of: To what extent are we the masters of our fate? To what extent do we make our lives, and to what extent are our lives made for us by forces beyond our control? I think the thing that has shifted in the modern era is that the balance of those two elements has been weighted more heavily on the side of loss of control. Our characters...
...German Pope's own experience? After all, the teenage Joseph Ratzinger was drafted into the Hitler Youth in his native Bavaria, against his will and the wishes of his own anti-Nazi policeman father. Or why not mention what he, as a young German priest, thought when the full extent of Hitler's crimes came to light? Still, my colleague would reserve final judgment until the noon ceremony in the synagogue...