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...problem and needs a worldwide response. We all hate terrorism, but when it comes to foreign policy, the solutions should be spearheaded by a strongly financed and resourced U.N. Maybe it's time to get behind and support the organization we have marginalized for so long. Give it the power to act, since our own moral high ground was lost in Iraq. Martin Smith, LONDON...
...Grand Slam singles event. It was irrelevant whether the two would progress further in the tournament - their feat was already a huge achievement in a game long dominated by the West. Now the smart money is on China displaying the same relentlessness to evolve into a women's-tennis power (Chinese men, by contrast, have hit the proverbial net), just as the country has in being the largest exporting nation, the biggest holder of foreign reserves and almost the world's No. 2 economy, among myriad superlatives. In more ways than we can count, and whether one likes...
...Town will also be the site of the first-ever FORTUNE/TIME/CNN Global Forum, a three-day event bringing together FORTUNE 500 CEOs, world leaders and members of the TIME 100 for a conference on what we're calling the New Global Opportunity. This is the idea that global economic power is shifting to the developing world--to Africa and the Middle East, as well as to Asia--and that these markets are more than just frontiers of growth; they are the sources of new ideas and models that can be applied everywhere...
Beyond politics, though, the Times is a symbol of the Establishment: it presents expert authority in a populist age that sees establishments as enemies and experts as fools. The Times has always been a chronicle of power. This used to be a selling point; today, as for the media's other big institutions, it's cause for suspicion. (See the 10 most endangered newspapers in America...
...happened over the past few days as Israeli and Syrian ministers have traded threats, with hard-line Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday threatening to topple the Assad regime. "When there is another war, you will not just lose it, but you and your family will lose power," said Lieberman. So as the U.S. moves to restore relations with Damascus, its first order of business may be crisis management: to calm rising Israeli-Syrian tensions and get both sides talking again...