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...always in Africa, there is another analysis. The contradictions of Kenya - where multiparty democracy competes with feudal tribalism - could be said to be precisely those you would expect in a country racing at breakneck speed towards modernity. Africa is trying to cover in a few decades what took Europe centuries. Chaos and contradiction - Kenyans are just as comfortable with cell-phone banking as they are with bartering - might be an indication of a country on the move. Kenya is changing. Last year's violence hastened the emergence of a highly critical civil-society movement which has become a sobering force...
...politics, the things that cause most trouble don't change, or change slowly. It took 85 years from Churchill's condescending comments for the villages of Fermanagh and Tyrone to be subject to a government which (just about) calmed political passions to a whisper. If they are to crack the most difficult problems, Obama should remind himself, leaders need patience. They must never, never, never, give up. That was Churchill...
...their first date, Barack and Michelle Obama went to the Art Institute of Chicago. Back then it was possible for them to go to a museum without attracting much attention. But when Michelle paid a visit to another museum a few weeks ago, people took note. On May 18, the First Lady traveled to New York City to inaugurate the newly refurbished American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Later she moved on to the city's other Met--the Metropolitan Opera House--to celebrate the opening night of the American Ballet Theatre and speak to the glamorously packed...
Even before the mystifying Kim Jong Il took power in 1994, the outside world was trying mightily to figure out how the North Korean regime works. Spy satellites are trained on its suspected nuclear sites 24 hours a day. Defectors from the North have been thoroughly scrubbed, and spies have been recruited. Diplomats from the U.S. and four other countries have talked on and off for years with their counterparts from Pyongyang. For all that, the May 25 nuclear-weapons test--North Korea's second in three years--makes clear just how dangerously unpredictable...
...other end of the attitude spectrum are women like Diane Mello, who was newly pregnant when she learned she had melanoma in 2004. The 21-year-old from New Jersey underwent surgery but took a pass on chemo. Spooked by the lack of data on pregnant women, she chose her baby's health over her own and died when her daughter was 9 months...