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...Marco Polo visited its ruins, Balkh was renowned throughout the ancient world for its fabulous wealth and advanced culture. It was the birthplace of one of the world's first monotheistic religions, and the city where Alexander the Great took his second bride, Roxanne. Seemingly oblivious to the recently spent ammunition rounds dislodged by his footsteps, Besenval - who heads the French archaeological delegation to Afghanistan - paints over the war-scarred landscape with his colorful descriptions of Zoroastrian fire altars, Buddhist monasteries, Christian shrines and Muslim mosques. "Here, you are standing on 3,000 years of life," he says...
...Paris' Grand Palais, and it was not a sale at all but an auction of the art collected by the late iconic French designer Yves Saint Laurent and his business and former life partner, Pierre Bergé. It's understandable if you want to dismiss the hundreds of millions spent on someone else's stuff as just another example of clueless extravagance in an age of thrift. But for those with means, there was something else for sale, as valuable and just as likely to drive a person to irrational spending as a masterpiece: taste...
...last eight years, spending got way out of control. The White House couldn't put a check on Congress and the Congress wouldn't put a check on the White House, so everyone spent what they wanted and we ended up with trillion-dollar deficits," says Representative Jim Moran, a Virginia Democrat who nevertheless voted for the package. "We have a responsibility as Democrats to make sure that we don't do that sort of thing - that when the White House is willing to make tough budgetary choices, that Congress plays a constructive role." Apparently, that new responsible role doesn...
...These men would have once spent their days barking out orders for shares on the trading floor (actually a U-shaped conference table in a nondescript downtown office) of the Harare bourse, but Zimbabwe's central bank forced the exchange to shut down last November amid allegations of fraud and rampant speculation - allegations deemed spurious by Zimbabwe's small investment-broker community. To be sure, the exchange was producing annual nominal returns of 23 sextillion percent, but Zimbabwe's inflation rate is even higher, rendering the bourse's real return close to -35%. Still, the government was taking no chances...
...government's move left Munyaradzi Ruzvidzo, one of the 38 licensed stockbrokers on the exchange, with little to do. Where once he enjoyed the frenetic lifestyle of a much sought-after banker, he has spent most of the past three months working "about five minutes" a day. He would show up at the exchange to post sell orders, but there were never any buyers - the hostile political climate has scared off even the most battle-worn investors. "It's only procedural," he says. "I come into the office, and there's just nothing going...