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...Sense of Place Look under the surface of any issue on the border, and its central paradox soon becomes clear. Securing a border is an effort to draw a bright, clear line marking exactly where the state begins and ends. That was never an easy task in India, where the line meant to separate Hindu and Muslim villages nevertheless left millions of Bengali-speaking Muslims on both sides. Rather than settling the 60-year-old questions about who belongs to whom, fencing India's border has only resurrected them...
...reinvent language each day or even each generation. Obama is an African American--literally. His father was African, his mother was American. It took us all these years to get a black man into the White House. We're not giving that brother up anytime soon...
Just wait a couple of months, though. Politicians from Beijing to Berlin to Brasília see the current crisis as the product of a messed-up global financial infrastructure dominated by the U.S., and they will soon be pushing for big changes--whether Americans like them...
...limit such excesses is through a bigger, more powerful IMF that can act as a central bank to the world--and knock heads when needed. While everybody agrees that this new IMF needs to be less dominated by the U.S. and Western Europe, things get controversial as soon as you go past voting rights. Should capital flows be restricted? Should there be limits on trade deficits and surpluses? Should the IMF be able to order around even the U.S.? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, global capitalism will have entered a new and dramatically less freewheeling...
...answer may partly depend on Suleman. She has yet to divulge who helped her get pregnant with the octuplets. But she has hired a p.r. firm and is rumored to be weighing seven-figure offers for her first televised interview. Her publicist, Joann Killeen, told reporters, "As soon as she's able, she will tell her story, and it's an amazing story." Doctors, moms and ethicists are all ears...