Word: nationalism
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...miles (62,750 km) of routes, making it the world's largest railroad under a single administration. It was also notorious for being slow, inefficient and requiring constant government bailouts. But over the past six years, India's most important form of transport - "the lifeline of the nation" as it is often called - has undergone a remarkable turnaround. In its fiscal year ending March 2007, Indian Railways made more than $5 billion. Services are improving and rail bosses have announced plans to spend billions on new rolling stock, faster lines and new stations. Though it still gets government funding...
...bragging if it's true, as they say in Texas, which is why a moment of unmistakable pride in the speech that Lee Myung Bak, the new President of South Korea, gave at his inauguration on Feb. 25 was forgivable. "In the shortest period of time," Lee said, "this nation achieved both industrialization and democratization." Visiting bustling Seoul a few weeks ago to meet Lee - who was a reformist mayor of the city before he won the presidency - I was struck, as I always am in Korea, by the extraordinary story of a nation that, impoverished and ravaged...
...orchestra's last piece was, for the audience, the most poignant. It played Arirang, a traditional Korean folk anthem loved in both North and South. Koreans have sung versions of the song for 600 years, and it speaks to a longing in both countries to become a whole nation again. As the orchestra began to leave the stage, several members turned and waved goodbye, and many in the audience reciprocated. Bassist Jon Deak later said he was near tears. So too was a young Korean-American assistant concertmaster, Michelle Kim, a descendant of a North Korean family who lived...
...Australia's settlement has as its refrain the taming of what celebrated historian Manning Clark called "that rude and barbarous land." The first settlers found themselves in an alien world, and for the convicts among them, the land's harshness must have seemed part of their punishment. The nation's self-image was shaped by those colonists' experiences of hardship, hunger, hostile natives, droughts and floods - their sense, from the outset, of being profoundly at odds with the land they had to call their home...
...first time since he took office nine years ago. He says businesses have been hoarding goods until they can be sold at higher prices. In the last two months, he's created a new food distribution company, increased government controls and made overt threats to private business, including the nation's largest food producer and distributor, Polar...