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...stage of the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater is full of men in black suits and women with Marge Simpson-size hair. To the quiet tick of a deep-voiced drum, they strip to their skivvies. Then the four percussionists in the pit lay down a loud backbeat, and the half-clothed dancers start flying crazily through the air. They look like mall rats at a suburban prom--but their airy lifts and arabesques are straight out of Swan Lake...
...states are hardly easy, but they pale in difficulty compared with the task of monitoring and deterring obscure and fleeting groups and individuals. Not everyone in our future will have a bomb, of course. If countries really want to, though, a lot of them will still be able to lay their hands on the stuff of nightmares...
...look at a different type of interconnection, there is plenty of evidence from the positive experience of East and Southeast Asia that the removal of social deprivation can be very influential in stimulating economic growth and sharing the fruits of growth more evenly. If India went wrong, the fault lay not only in the suppression of market opportunities but also in the lack of attention to social poverty (for example, in the form of widespread illiteracy). India has reaped as it has sown by cultivating higher education (its booming software industry is only one effect of that), but the country...
...wasn't enough, so violence has erupted again in poor, shattered Sierra Leone. And this time it has engulfed the very U.N. troops sent to monitor the peace. Soldiers from the unrepentant R.U.F. swooped down on U.N. personnel across the tiny country last week. By Friday, four Kenyan peacekeepers lay dead, more than 300 others were held hostage, and brazen rebels were reportedly "on the move" in 13 captured U.N. armored personnel carriers...
...that Reverend Jesse Jackson had spent days cajoling him to sign. And it was a pretty sweet deal for a man who'd been bound for the firing squad a few short months earlier: Clinton and Jackson were urging a war criminal to agree to order his men to lay down their arms, in exchange for his country's vice presidency and ministerial control over the diamond fields that had financed his rebellion. And in a failed and lawless state such as Sierra Leone, ministerial control meant a lot more than majority shareholding...