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...system is usually the last place to look for real leadership on this or any other issue. But these days, alongside images of the Rio bloodshed, there's an uncommon sight that even Brazilian politicians apparently can't ignore: the nation's World Cup-champion football team Sporting Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) T shirts in support of leftist President Luiz In á cio Lula da Silva's ambitious antipoverty program. The team's gesture reflects, for the moment anyway, a rare sense of unified national purpose in Brazil. Last week's headlines also included all 27 of the country...
After a year and a half, it remains the ground of murder. And the elegant stilts of steel, the extended wings of gossamer glass with which Daniel Libeskind proposes to sculpt a new Babylon above Ground Zero do not alter this truth. It is not that Libeskind is not a fine sculptor; it is that sculpture is too fine for the site...
...danger of rebuilding on the ground at Ground Zero is to forget that it is not ground. As Leon Wieseltier describes it, “There was no soil in this place. What they were moving was the substance that was formed out of the dissolution of everything and everybody that had been crushed and incinerated: a deathloam.” Creating a beautiful, used, lived-in building over Ground Zero is more than a physical erasure of the tragedy, it is an erasure of our public memory. It veneers over death. It treats the “deathloam?...
...jump-start growth by encouraging more investing and spending. But a central banker has a relatively small number of imprecise tools at his command, and the current governor has exhausted virtually all of them. Over the past five years, Hayami has consistently kept interest rates at nearly zero in a desperate bid to get people spending. Money in Japan is practically free for anyone who wants to put it to work, yet growth continues to lag. If monetary policy were going to ignite inflation, it would have started to work a long time...
...global warming until dramatic changes occur in the environment. The Bush administration has put aside any real policy discussion of global warming until further studies indicate the exact economic cost of increased carbon emissions. Somebody should tell them that the cost will probably be closer to infinity than zero. Biosphere II cost $200 million and could not support a small group of trained scientists for two years—$200 million multiplied by the number of people on Earth sure exceeds a sound budget...