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...debatable output." The region has other forums, notably the 16-member East Asian Summit. But, says HSBC's Edwards, only APEC "includes both China and the U.S. and all the economies that have most to lose if their relationship broke down. There are all sorts of points of tension between the two that can be modulated by the diplomacy of the others." With many members allied with the U.S. but ever more reliant on trade with China, its talk-shop role alone could soon make APEC worth having...
Those who have been following the prolific novelist's inspired fictions in recent years, from My Other Life to Blinding Light, know that they are usually fired by sexual tension and hunger, which speak for the ways our secret lives turn on our regular lives until they seem the realest lives of all. In India, inevitably, this dance of mutual need grows ever more serpentine as pleasure-seeking Westerner and improvident local circle one another. Beautiful young men teach foreign guests the "scorpion pose" in yoga pavilions, and then the "crocodile posture" and the "corpse pose." Americans diligently pave...
...Racial tension is certainly not unique to New Orleans. And there are groups and individuals who are reaching across color lines here post-Katrina, as they did before the storm. But the charges of racial discrimination that cropped up during the botched response to Katrina have lingered throughout the protracted and painful rebuilding effort, and two years on, the tension is palpable...
...from helping ease the tension, politicians have sought to exploit it. Mayor Ray Nagin has tended to downplay racial tension in his few public comments on the subject. But many blame him for exacerbating racial disharmony during his successful bid for reelection last year by alluding to unnamed power brokers who were seeking to prevent displaced black residents from returning and, most famously, in his vow that New Orleans would once again be a "chocolate city"; since Katrina, New Orleans' population of 450,000 has dropped to about 300,000, with African-Americans' share going from around 70% before...
...underlying cause of racial tension - and the path to a possible solution - lies in a string of broken promises that predate Hurricane Katrina, says Ronald Chisom, executive director of the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, a collective of community organizations based in New Orleans. "This disaster has just compounded what we've dealt with for years," Chisom says. Before the storm, poor schools, inadequate health care, low wages, high unemployment and substandard housing were the norm for a vast number of New Orleanians, especially poor blacks; since Katrina, Chisom says, those problems have intensified. "People aren't really...