Word: uncertainity
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...long run all the way down into Klosters. Just above that picture-postcard Swiss village, I stop at a hillside inn, have a gluhwein, and try to make sense of what I've learned. So here are this year's piste-side thoughts. We live in an uncertain world. Well, duh, you say, when has the world ever been certain? Fair enough: but the half-generation since the end of the cold war was shaped by a set of circumstances that did at least lend themselves to easy characterization. That is to say: the U.S. was dominant. The U.S. economy...
...been in the compound. But some Pakistani intelligence officials began telling media outlets last week they believe as many as four leading terrorists, including al-Zawahiri's son-in-law and Abu Khabab al-Masri, a top al-Qaeda bombmaker, died in the strike. The U.S. is still uncertain if DNA was recovered from the scene to allow experts to positively identify any terrorists killed there or how the IDs were made. Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told TIME late last week that so far investigators have recovered only bodies of civilians, "but our security forces are there in large...
...runs until early summer, and after that Kleinschmidt’s plans are uncertain...
...seems obsessed with showing how dirty the seventeenth century was, which I guess is a pretty noble pursuit. Thus, everyone’s hair is disgusting, fingernails are teeming with grime, and the floors are perpetually covered in bodily fluids. England is shown as being encased in a yellow uncertain fog, and over-flowing with perpetual massive orgies. The film is aesthetically ambitious, but eventually borders on being pretentious. The main problem with “The Libertine” is that it is heavy handed, but not about anything exactly. It seems as if Dunmore wanted the audience...
...money used to buy gold was invested in banks or stocks, rather than being locked up in a non-productive asset, it would boost India's GDP significantly, they say. But old ways of thinking die hard. Gold is seen by many as a safe haven in an uncertain world. "So many banks fail and close their doors, and ordinary people get hurt when that happens," says Jhansi Rani, a schoolteacher in Madras, pointing out the case of a close relative who had deposited his pension money in a private bank, only to see it close down suddenly and find...