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...campaign is about to grow rapidly, doubling or tripling in size as it prepares to take on valuable refugees from the losing camp, raise several hundred million dollars, find a vice president, plan and execute a convention in Denver and then mount a fall campaign - all in the span of just about 90 days...
Botswana, the world's biggest producer of diamonds, has proved an exception to this rule, raising its 1.9 million people out of poverty within the span of a generation. The country's forward-thinking leaders have persuaded a global mining giant to invest in its happy road to development. De Beers, the world's largest diamond-mining company and a name once synonymous with the imperial multinational, has operated its mines with the government for decades as a 50-50 partnership called Debswana. Now De Beers has deepened that cooperation by moving its worldwide diamond-sorting and -valuing operation from...
...recent visit to Turkey, I was struck by how often people felt the need to constantly remind me how amazing it was that one country could span two continents. Somehow, I missed the glory in what seemed an unremarkable geopolitical happenchance, at best, and a regrettable display of internalized Orientalism, at worst...
...dinner itself was an unspectacular spread of white wine, white fish, steak and cheesecake. It was followed by President Bush, who rose to offer C-SPAN viewers another reason to doubt political journalists' ability to be anything but cowardly suck-ups to presidential pomp. In recent years, this event has been known mainly for the fantastic performance in 2006 of Stephen Colbert, the Comedy Central host, who addressed the crowd with a withering critique of both the failures of President Bush and the media. "I stand by this man," Colbert had said sarcastically of Bush, at one point. "I stand...
...that the Security Council and the international community has placed on him in terms of suspending their uranium enrichment activities and complying with the other requirements regarding their nuclear programme." That statement piqued India's Ministry of External Affairs, which responded: "India and Iran are ancient civilizations whose relations span centuries. Both nations are perfectly capable of managing all aspects of their relationship with the appropriate degree of care and attention." In a sharper tone, the statement added: "Neither country needs any guidance on the future conduct of bilateral relations as both countries believe that engagement and dialogue alone lead...