It is not time to play a blame game. Regulators in the United States might not want to miss the chance that they failed to seize before the crisis, when property companies, investment banks and insurance companies juggled various financial products and Wall Street “elites” snatched tens of ...
More than two-thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend.Those who could were likely to name a woman.Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost always it was a woman.More married men than women named their wife/hu...
He and his friends once argued about which European game bird (猎鸟) was the fastest. They failed to find the answer in any book. Later, the twins Norris and Ross McWhirter were invited to write a book of facts and numbers. Neither of them knew that the book would...
history is not a set of neutrally observed and agreed-upon facts: present concerns colour interpretations of even the remote past. For all the contestants in contemporary Southern Africa there has been a conscious struggle to control the past in order tolegitimatethe present and lay claim to th...
The wordfascismcomes from the Latinfasces, which denotes a bundle of wooden rods that typically included a protruding axe blade. Inancient Rome, lictors (attendants to magistrates) would hold thefascesas a symbol of the penal power of their magistrate. The first European fascist,Benito Mussolini,...