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...England. Little Lin knows he will have to hide in vans and safe houses and subsist on rice gruel. But he is optimistic. Someone from his village recently arrived safely in England after using the same snakehead he has contacted. "It's very safe," he insists. "Bad things can happen here...
That vision, which Clinton largely shared, summed up Democratic foreign policy at the turn of the millennium. In a globalized world, bad things that happen in other countries spread more quickly to our shores. Genocides spawn refugees, who destabilize their neighbors. Corruption sparks financial meltdowns, which rock the world economy. Pandemics hopscotch across the globe. Blair's answer was for Britain and the U.S., working through international institutions, to intervene more aggressively in the domestic affairs of other nations: to strengthen their financial and public-health systems, to push them toward capitalism and democracy, and in cases of extreme neglect...
...straight suburban life and the kids try to fit in at private school, the series shows that social mobility isn't as easy as advertised in America and that identity is less a constant than a performance. Everybody feels like a fraud, says The Riches. Some of us just happen to earn a bigger prize...
...companies' long-term success. "There are two conceptual frameworks to understand innovation," says Alberto Rodriguez, author of a soon-to-be-released World Bank study on how better education spurs growth. "You have the high-tech, frontier innovation, and you have the adaptation and improvement of technology that happen day to day in firms." Economists call that everyday improvement total factor productivity. It is the x factor that allows an economy to operate more efficiently, producing greater output with the same people and resources...
...establish his power, in other words. He's hardly the only humorist to do that. But making jokes about difference - race, gender, sexual orientation, the whole list - is ultimately about power. You need to purchase the right to do it through some form of vulnerability, especially if you happen to be a rich, famous white man. But the I-Man - his radio persona, anyway - is not about vulnerability. (The nickname, for Pete's sake: I, Man!) That's creepy enough when he's having a big-name columnist kiss his ring; when he hurled his tinfoil thunderbolts at a team...