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...peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Settle that, many believe, and economic development will proceed apace, extremist groups will lose their reason for being, and public support for violence will evaporate. Even if some of those claims are far-fetchedwhat, precisely, has Israel done that would explain the woeful economic performance of the Arab world for a generation?they are deeply held and widely shared. "Terrorism," British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the U.S. Congress in 2003, "will not be defeated without peace in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine. Here it is that the poison is incubated...
...emotion is on display when she speaks of her son, Ibrahim. Sitting in her tidy home in Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp, surrounded by pictures of Ibrahim - jailed since 1986, at the age of 21, for taking part in attacks on Israeli troops - she is by turns furious and woeful. She doesn't deny her son's actions; what almost all Israelis see as terrorism, she sees as justified resistance. But when asked about the parents of Corporal Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held [an error occurred while processing this directive] captive by Palestinian militants since June...
...being enacted. Sure, it might be good for the planet if governments banned the use of sport-utility vehicles - or, for that matter, of all fossil fuels. Yet not only is it hard to sell outright prohibitions to voters, but the sad truth is that governments have a woeful record in even the mildest interventions. One of the most significant innovations in the last decade has been Europe's carbon-emission trading scheme: some 12,000 companies, responsible for more than half of the E.U.'s emissions, have been assigned quotas. Companies with unused allowances can then sell them...
...Among economists, there's a common admission these days that ?lites have been woeful at explaining the benefits of globalization. "We haven't been very good at showing how a lot of new job creation comes through foreign investment, which is often the greatest driver of employment, technological progress, and benefits to consumers," says Ian Goldin, a vice president of the World Bank and co-author of a new book on globalization and development. Columbia University's Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel prizewinning economist, adds a further thought: nations, he says, want to pick and choose between bits of globalization that...
...beauty of sports. In under an hour, on a cold New England night, in a pair of mediocre venues cheering for one good and one not-so-good college team, you can experience certainty and shock, can feel bitterness and delight, can observe displays of breathtaking skill and woeful ineptitude, can run through a veritable gamut of emotions and emerge purified. In a matter of minutes, I witnessed both the joys of victory and the agony of defeat. On two ends of the sportsmanship spectrum, I saw a Princeton skater throw a hissy fit near the bench after...