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...SALT OF THE SEA. Annemarie Jacir...
...heart of the credit crunch now afflicting the global economy is the bursting of a great housing bubble throughout much of the developed world. Bubbles are, of course, as old as capitalism itself. Many of us in England recall learning at school of the great South Sea bubble of the early 18th century. But they seem to be coming more frequently nowadays. The housing bubble has burst only a decade or so after the Internet and tech-stock bubble. So we may not need to wait all that long to see the next one. And the most likely candidate...
...Africa's GDP, according to the province's economic development agency, on the city's outskirts lives have changed little since apartheid. Many families live in the same tin shacks they occupied under white supremacy. Most have no running water, sanitation or meaningful health care. In this sea of unmet expectation, Muyumba says South Africans vent their frustration on the only group more vulnerable than them: foreigners. As Africa's most developed nation, South Africa has long been a magnet for refugees and economic migrants. Since 2000, some 800,000 Zimbabweans have joined the tens of thousands of immigrants from...
...same week, a second opportunity to whip up national hysteria came when Russia defeated Canada to win ice hockey's World Championship for the first time since 1993. And Putin continues to pour funds into his pet project of holding the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian Black Sea resort Sochi...
...Ultimately, political scientists attached to models can consider kleos as a possible motivation for action, just as they could ascribe a particular value to the Bolivian obsession with the sea. But values, in models and elsewhere, change just as much as motivations do. Thus, like Greenspan proposed, we need to understand the impossibility of foreseeing a particular actor’s full set of motivations when making a political decision. Given that the future is eternally foggy, our only option is to study the past in a qualitative, rather than quantitative...