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In my more than two decades in China, I have seldom seen the foreign business community more angry and disillusioned than it is today. Such sentiment goes beyond the Internet censorship and cyberspying that led to Google's Jan. 12 threat to bail out of China, or the clash of...
Bankers are born no greedier than the rest of us. That assertion alone makes Joseph Stiglitz's comprehensive postmortem stand out from the reams of books published so far about the financial crisis. Instead of attacking individuals, the Nobel Prize--winning economist faults the system that delivered us to the...
We hear a lot about the costs of taking care of our graying population. But the big story roiling beneath the surface is the psychological crisis among middle-aged siblings who are fuming or fighting over issues involving their aging parents. According to a new survey by the AARP- and...
Sponsored by the Department of African American Studies, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, and the Committee on African Studies, the panel assembled a variety of perspectives on the Haitian crisis from writers, including Haitian-born poet Patrick Sylvain, and doctors like Mary Louis Jean Baptiste, a Haitian-American mental health...
There's no doubt, though, that all sides are looking for a way out of the stalemate that has produced Iran's longest period of domestic political instability since the 1979 revolution. One state broadcaster recently suggested that much of the postelection protest was the result of sexual frustration on...