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...says Heseltine. "To resile from that, to move backward, actually becomes very hard." For a quick measure of APEC's effectiveness, says Oxley, contrast Vietnam and Venezuela. Vietnam, embracing APEC's open-market model, is flourishing; Venezuela, outside APEC and with an anti-free-market government, is an economic mess...
...voice that makes his tough talk go down easy. He isn't ranting; he's twanging like a bluegrass banjo, rolling along in full control-outraged on behalf of people who have lost their jobs or pensions to corporate restructuring, people who watch their children go off to "this mess of a war in Iraq." And he's enthusiastic about all the things he'll do for these people as soon as he shuts down those rascally insiders: pass universal health care and middle-class tax relief, raise taxes on rich folks, end the war, stop global warming, rebuild labor...
...Bernanke walks a thin line. Too far in one direction, and he bails out all the irresponsible people and institutions that have gotten us into the subprime mess and subsequent debt-market crunch. Too far in the other, and the global financial system collapses on his watch. "In a run, fear that a bank may fail induces depositors to withdraw their money, which in turn forces liquidation of the bank's assets," Bernanke wrote in 1983 as a young economics professor. "The need to liquidate hastily, or to dump assets on the market when other banks are also liquidating...
...Philadelphia doesn't keep exact stats on graffiti crimes but says the mural-as-peacemaker model has proved its worth. In the late 1990s, the Grays Ferry neighborhood suffered an outbreak of racial violence. Golden believed the divisiveness called for a multiracial mural. Not everyone agreed. "It was a mess, a real mess," recalls Jim Helman, a white neighborhood activist. "And along comes this diminutive little thing [Golden] who promises to do this ridiculous project that turns out to be anything but ridiculous." The community rallied around the project, and Helman says the resulting mural, called The Peace Wall...
Washington is hopeful that a deal can be worked out. But it knows that Musharraf has a history of getting out of a mess by taking out his weapons. As an Administration official puts it, "The question still becomes, At what point does his tendency as a commando to, you know, blow his way out of the situation, take over...