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Down with the Man Christopher Hayes' article "The Twilight of the Elites" is a fantastic reminder of the hubris of supposed experts [March 22]. Since the financial crisis started, many consultants, fund managers and other privileged executives have proved to be glorified charlatans. Perhaps, like the Roman generals of old, they should keep lackeys on hand, tasked to repeatedly remind them of their fragile human mortality. Rafael Pintos-López, MICHELAGO, AUSTRALIA
...Down with the Man Christopher Hayes' article "The Twilight of the Elites" is a fantastic reminder of the hubris of supposed experts [March 22]. Since the financial crisis started, many consultants, fund managers and other privileged executives have proved to be glorified charlatans. Perhaps, like the Roman generals of old, they should keep lackeys on hand, tasked to repeatedly remind them of their fragile human mortality. Rafael Pintos-López, Michelago, Australia
This is definitely not the first time that the mysterious "whisperer" has plagued the campus with his eerie calls. According to the same article linked above, Harvard University Police Department identified a man in south Florida as the original “serial whisperer” in 2001. Similar calls were reported in 2003. But police could not take action because making phone calls was not illegal...
...democracy that pulled the plug on the country's moment of "democratic transformation": the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), which led the south in a decades-long struggle against the regime in Khartoum, was the first to withdraw from the election, eliminating the candidacy of Yasir Arman, the man seen as able to present the strongest challenge to al-Bashir. Sudan's ruler of 20 years, who last year became the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, is now a presidential shoe-in. (See whether South Sudan...
...group Justice Africa, says the decision to pull Arman from the race was a good one. By not contesting the presidential vote, she says, the SPLM refuses to endorse a flawed process but also avoids destabilizing relations with its partner in peace. (See "Omar al-Bashir: Sudan's Wanted Man...