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...then by spasms of violence. In her book The March of Folly, Historian Barbara Tuchman argues that through the ages governments have shown a propensity to pursue policies contrary to their own interests. The first example of freely chosen disaster that she cites was Rehoboam's loss of the northern kingdom of Judea and its conquest by the Assyrians nearly 3,000 years ago. The story of the Middle East for years has been, in many ways, an endless pageant of the self-defeating. ''We were in a different time zone 40 years ago,'' says Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian professor...
...showing considerable wrist. The journalistic dress code is tricky in such situations: I don't show up for interviews in miniskirts, as a rule, and I try to be sensitive to indigenous customs. But what if local tradition means ignoring my presence altogether? I once conducted an interview in northern Afghanistan with a formerly Taliban-aligned warlord, who refused to speak directly to me, forcing my male colleague to repeat my questions on my behalf. (Conversely, talking to women in conservative Muslim societies is easier for me than it is for male reporters...
...marbles. One TV commentator, trying to explain his ginned-up outrage over Boxer, accused her of thinking that a black woman can't be Secretary of State without children - a form of prejudice so convoluted that no one could actually have it, let alone a liberal congresswoman from northern California...
Such gregariousness has apparently helped the 72-year-old find friends in high places. Bertone, a native of the northern Italian region of Piedmont and a former theology professor, worked for seven years as deputy for then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the office that oversees church orthodoxy. Promoted in 2002 to Archbishop of Genoa, Bertone attained the rank of Cardinal the next year and was thought to be among the core group in the conclave that pushed for Ratzinger's election. Still, since he didn't have the usual résumé from...
Tatsuro Sasaya lives by Newton's Third Law of Motion. "If people go one way, I go the other way," he says, which might be the only explanation for his decision to move back to his economically depressed hometown of Yubari on Japan's cold northern island of Hokkaido. When the 49-year-old Sasaya was growing up here, it was a thriving city of over 100,000 people, most working in the coalmines scattered throughout the surrounding mountains. But by the time Sasaya had left for college in Tokyo, the mines were closing and many of the townsfolk...