DOCSLIB.ORG

The Economist February16th 2008 & Welcome to Visit

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Economist February16th 2008 & Welcome to Visit SEARCH RESEARCH TOOLS Economist.com Choose a research tool... advanced search » Subscribe Activate RSS Help Saturday February 16th 2008 Welcome = requires subscription My Account » Manage my newsletters LOG OUT » » PRINT EDITION Print Edition February 16th 2008 On the cover Previous print editions Subscribe It is now time for America to Feb 9th 2008 Subscribe to the print edition evaluate Obama the potential Feb 2nd 2008 Or buy a Web subscription for president, not Obama the Jan 26th 2008 full access online phenomenon: leader Jan 19th 2008 Jan 12th 2008 RSS feeds Receive this page by RSS feed More print editions and covers » The world this week Politics this week Full contents Subscribe Business this week Enlarge current cover KAL's cartoon Past issues/regional covers A special report on technology and government Leaders NEWS ANALYSIS The electronic bureaucrat POLITICS THIS WEEK Barack Obama Look it up on the web But could he deliver? BUSINESS THIS WEEK The good, the bad and the inevitable The world economy OPINION In search of an insurance policy Notional Health Server Leaders Letters to the editor Technology and the public sector Making it happen Blogs Government offline Columns Identity parade Kallery Church and state Sever them E for express WORLD Aviation United States The road to e-democracy The Americas The need to shrink Asia Sources and acknowledgments Middle East & Africa Letters Europe Offer to readers Britain International On America's GDP, hunger, Nepal, military tankers, Country Briefings Northern Ireland, Rudy Giuliani, Belgian Business mathematicians Cities Guide Aviation A normal industry? SPECIAL REPORTS Briefing BUSINESS Mobile telecoms China's infrastructure splurge Small, but disruptive Management Rushing on by road, rail and air Business Education Consumer goods America's interstate highways Cleaning up FINANCE & ECONOMICS America's splurge Economics Focus The Hollywood writers' strike Economics A-Z The show goes on—for now United States SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Class-action lawsuits The Democratic race Lerach and ruin Technology Quarterly His to lose Takeover battles BOOKS & ARTS The Republican race Just say no Style Guide Cannon to the right of him Activist investors in Japan PEOPLE Military commissions Samurai v shareholders The Guantánamo six Obituary Face value The death penalty Mittalic magic MARKETS & DATA So long to Old Sparky Weekly Indicators Currencies Urban flight from Los Angeles Briefing Rankings Straight outta Compton Big Mac Index Securitisation Chart Gallery Hannah Montana Fear and loathing, and a hint of hope The UnBritney DIVERSIONS Correspondent’s Diary The Mafia Finance & Economics End of the Gambinos? RESEARCH TOOLS The world economy Lexington A stimulating notion AUDIO AND VIDEO A declaration on independents Asian budget finances DELIVERY OPTIONS Poles apart The Americas E-mail Newsletters Audio edition Buttonwood Mobile Edition Oil in Venezuela Hedge podge RSS Feeds Exxon's wrathful tiger takes on Hugo Chávez Screensaver UBS and Credit Suisse Belize For richer, for even richer CLASSIFIED ADS The squid and the whales New blood at UBS Mexico The outsiders Big, expensive and weirdly spineless Economist Intelligence Unit Economist Conferences Insurers The World In Argentina Unsurance Intelligent Life Party time CFO Stockmarkets Roll Call Peru's hotel industry Dow wager European Voice Killing the tourism goose EuroFinance Economics focus Economist Diaries and From Mao to the mall Business Gifts Asia Reprints and Permissions Pakistan's election Science & Technology The posthumous poll Metabolic syndrome I: diabetes China's farmland The battle of the bulge Advertisement This land is my land Metabolic syndrome II: obesity Taiwan's National Palace Museum Sweetness and light Treasure island The price of conservation Timor-Leste The unkindest cut Dawn raids Nanotechnology The Japan Sumo Association Casting a long line Heavy hitters The Richard Casement internship Myanmar If voting changed anything Books & Arts The Maldives Sea, sun and jihad Rome and the Barbarians The stranger in their midst Malaysia Snap! It's an election Civilians in war How best to protect them Middle East & Africa Benazir Bhutto Her last words Iraq The enigma of Muqtada al-Sadr New fiction Bugs' life Lebanon The world's most elusive terrorist Vladimir Nabokov Imagination ablaze Egypt A bit more religious freedom New film The living daylights African football A happy taste of the future Obituary America in Africa Doing good, quietly Maharishi Mahesh Yogi South Africa's economy Tighten your belt Economic and Financial Indicators Overview Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Europe Football wealth Europe's economies Dangers ahead Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Eastern Europe's economies Coming in to land Markets Turkey and Islam Chances of becoming vice-president Veils of half-truth Kosovo's independence A state is born. Or so say some Spain's election Rivals in profligacy Russia and its history A Byzantine sermon Charlemagne Farm follies revisited Britain Political manoeuvres The need for speed Taxing rich foreigners What did you do in the non-dom wars? Anglicanism The gathering storm Cathedral finances Helping those who help themselves Military spending Rusty Lusty Badri Patarkatsishvili Death in Surrey Economic woes Fighting on two fronts Articles flagged with this icon are printed only in the British edition of The Economist International Faith, law and democracy Defining the limits of exceptionalism The West and Russia Lights, camera and a different ending Politics and sport High hurdles Advertisement Classified ads Sponsors' feature About sponsorship » Jobs Business / Tenders Jobs Business / Tenders WHITE Consumer REQUEST FOR Senior level Consumer A Franchise to be COLLAR/FRAUD #1 rated internet PROPOSALS - opportunity within the #1 Career proud of - WSI. Own INVESTIGATOR business looking for Scoping and design Telecommunication Opportunity. World's the #1 Internet UNITED NATIONS - professional of SME development sector top Internet Franchise Marketing Franchise NEW YORK Deadline consultants. No projects in Our client, Safaricom is currently looking to for $49,700 US. Full for Applications: 10 previous technical Cambodia's selected Limited, is Kenya?s expand their Training and Support. February .... experience required. agro sectors (Rice, leading.... franchise. Become an Apply Today. Cashew Nut, Rubber, Internet Consultant Fruit & Vegetables) Today. Apply Here. About Economist.com | About The Economist | Media Directory | Staff Books | Advertising info | Career opportunities | Contact us Copyright © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2008. All rights reserved. Advertising Info | Legal disclaimer | Accessibility | Privacy policy | Terms & Conditions | Help Produced by =ECO PDF TEAM= Welcome to visit www.ecocn.org Politics this week Feb 14th 2008 From The Economist print edition Barack Obama extended his lead over Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination by winning several states, including Virginia and Washington, by wide margins. Mrs Clinton's campaign manager and deputy campaign-manager both resigned. The senator from New York is now looking to the contests in Texas and Ohio on March 4th to make her last stand. See article John McCain tightened his grip on the Republican nomination with victories in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC. Earlier, Mike Huckabee gave Mr McCain a scare by winning Kansas and Louisiana and coming a very close second in Washington state, proving that the Arizona senator has some way to go in endearing himself to conservatives in his party. See article The White House said it would seek the death penalty against six alleged plotters of the September 11th attacks, including the man who claims to be the plot's mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The six will be brought before a military commission, probably before George Bush steps down from the presidency. What goes around One of the world's most lethal and elusive terrorists, Imad Mughniya, a member of the Lebanese party- cum-militia, Hizbullah, was killed by a car bomb in Syria's capital, Damascus; it was unclear by whom. He was thought responsible, over a period of three decades, for a host of mass-killings and suicide- bombings, especially against Israeli targets. See article A grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founding father of Iran's Islamic revolution, was reinstated, after an initial disqualification, among the candidates in Iran's parliamentary election scheduled for March 14th. One-third of the 6,000 other Iranians who tried to stand remain banned from competing by the Council of Guardians. In a bid to end the country's bloody post-election crisis, representatives of Reuters Kenya's government and opposition held talks in a remote game lodge under the eye of a former UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan. A government minister denied that the teams had agreed to a government of national unity. A European Union peacekeeping force resumed its deployment in Chad after a halt caused by fighting between the government and rebels, who have been forced out of the capital, Ndjamena. Reinforcements of the French-led force are to be flown into the eastern town of Abéché under a UN mandate to protect more than 500,000 refugees and civilians who have fled violence spilling over from Sudan's embattled Darfur region. Hooray for Hollywood Steven Spielberg resigned as an artistic adviser to the Summer Olympics in Beijing over China's policy on Darfur. The film director said his conscience would not let him continue “business as usual” unless China changed its position on Sudan, its ally, which has been accused of human-rights abuses in the region. See article José Ramos-Horta, president of Timor-Leste, was flown to hospital in Darwin, Australia, after being shot in a gun battle at his home in Dili. Xanana Gusmão, the prime minister, who was also attacked but not hurt, described the incident as an attempted coup and declared a state of emergency. The leader of the assailants, who appear to have been planning to kidnap the president, was Alfredo Reinado, a renegade army officer. He was killed in the shooting.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Teaching the Unit Unit 16: the New Hampshire Primary
    Teaching the Unit Unit 16: The New Hampshire Primary Unit Summary In the “New Hampshire Primary” unit, students explore civics concepts as well as the history of the New Hampshire primary, its significance, and its traditions. Every four years the nation turns its attention to New Hampshire’s presidential primary. This small New England state plays a significant role in selecting a president. The Granite State brings some unique qualities and traditions to the presidential race that boil down to one overriding reason why New Hampshire holds the first-in-the-nation primary—the people of New Hampshire take seriously their responsibility to vet candidates regardless of the media or the political parties. Every New Hampshire voter feels they have a voice. As each primary election draws near, the Granite State itself—its people, landscape, cities, and towns—draws the nation’s attention on the first stop of the long road to the White House. Full Educator Overview The Big Picture The first-in-the-nation presidential primary is what New Hampshire is best known for in America during the modern era. The main points covered in this unit are: • The first modern presidential primary was held in 1952. Four major candidates—two for each party—were running for president that year. New Hampshire’s primary was the first one in the country, and the results of surprised everyone. The contest changed the course of American history and established New Hampshire as an important political battleground for those seeking to be president. • Since 1952, a number of New Hampshire traditions regarding the presidential primary have developed.
    [Show full text]
  • Crime, Welfare, and the Racialized Gubernatorial Politics of Massachusetts in the Post-Civil Rights Era
    University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations Dissertations and Theses Fall November 2014 Southie versus Roxbury: Crime, Welfare, and the Racialized Gubernatorial Politics of Massachusetts in the Post-Civil Rights Era Daniel T. Kirsch University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2 Part of the American Politics Commons, Public Policy Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, and the Urban Studies Commons Recommended Citation Kirsch, Daniel T., "Southie versus Roxbury: Crime, Welfare, and the Racialized Gubernatorial Politics of Massachusetts in the Post-Civil Rights Era" (2014). Doctoral Dissertations. 220. https://doi.org/10.7275/6042162.0 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/220 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SOUTHIE VERSUS ROXBURY: CRIME, WELFARE, AND THE RACIALIZED GUBERNATORIAL POLITICS OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE POST-CIVIL RIGHTS ERA A Dissertation Presented by DANIEL T. KIRSCH Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY September 2014 Political Science © Copyright by Daniel T. Kirsch 2014 All Rights Reserved SOUTHIE VERSUS ROXBURY: CRIME, WELFARE, AND THE RACIALIZED GUBERNATORIAL POLITICS OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE POST-CIVIL RIGHTS ERA A Dissertation Presented By DANIEL T. KIRSCH Approved as to style and content by: _________________________________ Dean E. Robinson, Chair _________________________________ Tatishe Nteta, Member _________________________________ Ralph Whitehead, Member ______________________________ Brian F.
    [Show full text]
  • 8/25/08 Roger Simon, Politico's Chief Political Columnist, Has Been a Respected Name in American Journalism Since the 1970S —
    8/25/08 Roger Simon, Politico's chief political columnist, has been a respected name in American journalism since the 1970s — and an authoritative voice in American politics for just as long. After the historic contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama finally came to an end in June, Simon launched an intensive effort to get behind the scenes — and to the bottom — of what happened and why. He interviewed scores of well-placed people at all levels of both campaigns, many of whom have been sources of his for years. This project, which Simon named "Relentless" to reflect what he saw as the animating spirit of Obama's remarkable campaign, is the result of Simon's two years of reporting on this campaign, and decades of observing political personalities in action. – John F. Harris Introduction: The path to the nomination By: Roger Simon August 24, 2008 09:09 AM EST In the summer of 2006, Patti Solis Doyle offered David Axelrod a job. Hillary Clinton was running for reelection to the Senate and Solis Doyle was her campaign manager, but everybody knew Clinton was soon going to run for president. And Clinton wanted Axelrod onboard. Axelrod was a highly experienced and successful political consultant and just what Clinton needed. But he declined. Presidential campaigns were mentally taxing, physically exhausting and emotionally draining. There were easier ways to make a buck. Unless. “I wasn’t planning to work in a presidential race,” Axelrod told me, “but if Barack might run, well, he would be the only guy to cause me to get in.” It was not impossible.
    [Show full text]
  • Public- Versus Elite-Driven Models of Presidential Primary Elections Colin D
    John Carroll University Carroll Collected 2019 Faculty Bibliography Faculty Bibliographies Community Homepage 2019 Here’s Looking at You: Public- Versus Elite-Driven Models of Presidential Primary Elections Colin D. Swearingen John Carroll University, [email protected] Elizabeth A. Stiles John Carroll University, [email protected] Kate Finneran* John Carroll University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://collected.jcu.edu/fac_bib_2019 Part of the American Politics Commons Recommended Citation Swearingen, Colin D.; Stiles, Elizabeth A.; and Finneran*, Kate, "Here’s Looking at You: Public- Versus Elite-Driven Models of Presidential Primary Elections" (2019). 2019 Faculty Bibliography. 27. https://collected.jcu.edu/fac_bib_2019/27 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Bibliographies Community Homepage at Carroll Collected. It has been accepted for inclusion in 2019 Faculty Bibliography by an authorized administrator of Carroll Collected. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Here’s Looking at You: Public- Versus Elite-Driven Models of Presidential ∗ Primary Elections Objective. This study advances the presidential primary literature in two ways. First, since many studies in this literature advocate for more detailed theoretical development, we incorporate an interdisciplinary approach by utilizing social contagion theory from the field of sociology. Second, presidential primaries do not adequately explore what role the public plays during the invisible primary. We thus incorporate Google Trends data into presidential primary models to account for the relative amount of public attention for each presidential primary candidate. Methods. We use fixed effects regression to determine the impact of public attention on a candidate’s share of the contested primary vote (CPV).
    [Show full text]
  • The Democracy for America Movement Noah Porter University of South Florida
    University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 2007 Real challenges, virtual challengers: The Democracy for America movement Noah Porter University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons Scholar Commons Citation Porter, Noah, "Real challenges, virtual challengers: The eD mocracy for America movement" (2007). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2325 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Real Challenges, Virtual Challengers: The Democracy for America Movement by Noah Porter A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Anthropology College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Major Professor: S. Elizabeth Bird, Ph.D. Susan Greenbaum, Ph.D. Michael Angrosino, Ph.D. James Cavendish, Ph.D. Navita Cummings James, Ph.D. Date of Approval: April 30, 2007 Keywords: Internet, social movements, politics, elections, Howard Dean © Copyright 2007, Noah Porter Note to Reader: The original of this document contains color that is necessary for understanding the data. The original dissertation is on file with the USF library in Tampa, Florida. Dedication I dedicate this dissertation to my friends, family, and my girlfriend, Jessica Torres, whose love, support, and encouragement kept me going. Thank you. Acknowledgements I owe a debt of gratitude to many people who have directly or indirectly made this dissertation possible.
    [Show full text]
  • Christianity and the Mormonism
    Welcome To Basic Christian BasicChristian.org - BasicChristian.info The Basics of Christianity ... and then some ... A Christian center with FREE Resources, Information and Links Testifying of God, Heaven and of Eternal Life through Jesus Christ the Savior both now and yet to come! Christianity and Mormonism (LDS) are Very Different • Mormonism Research Ministry Introduction (Mp3), Free Speech in Utah (Mp3) Witnessing to LDS (Mp3) - Some suggestions about speaking with your LDS friends and acquaintances • Heart of the Matter with Shawn McCraney (Mp3 - Mp4) - It's where Mormonism meets Biblical Christianity face to face! Started in early 2006, Heart of the Matter is a TV show produced in the Mecca of Mormonism, Salt Lake City. • Testimony out of (LDS) Mormonism and into Christianity (Video) • Joseph Smith dies in his own ill-fated jailbreak Deuteronomy 4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD He is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. Mormonism (LDS) practices and engages in the longtime deceitful and illegal marketing practice of "bait and switch" to offer - bait the customer with one product and then through excuses, deceit and manipulations to steer the customer into a different inferior product. In this case Mormons universally offer Jesus, the Bible and a "truer Christianity" and then in a dishonest way switching from the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible to the teachings of Joseph Smith and others. The Mormon Church is deliberately trying to avoid their true identity as a Mormon cult and is instead representing themselves as something they are not, which is true Christian followers of Jesus.
    [Show full text]
  • CHAPTER 3 NEW HAMPSHIRE It Was That Classic New England Trait of Frugality That Accidentally Caused New Hampshire to Have the Fi
    CHAPTER 3 NEW HAMPSHIRE It was that classic New England trait of frugality that accidentally caused New Hampshire to have the first presidential primary. The New Hampshire state legislature created a presidential primary in 1913 and scheduled the election in May. Only two years later, in 1915, a penny- pinching public official noticed that money could be saved by holding the presidential primary on Town Meeting Day, when town clerks and other local officials were chosen by the voters. Every spring in New Hampshire, when the snow begins to melt and the ground begins to thaw, the back roads become muddy and impass- able. To make it easy for New Hampshirites to get to the polls on Town Meeting Day, it was scheduled for early March, when the ground and the back roads are still frozen and thus passable. So, when the presidential primary was combined with Town Meeting Day, the New Hampshire presidential primary moved to early March and accidentally became the first presidential primary in the nation. The New Hampshire presidential primary was a pretty dull affair from 1916 to 1948. That was because New Hampshirites voted for their specific delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conven- tions rather than voting directly for the presidential candidates by name. That system ended in 1952. Sherman Adams, the Republican governor of the Granite State, began hatching a plot to secure the 1952 Republican nomination for General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the victorious com- mander of U.S. military forces in Europe during World War II. Sherman Adams decided that New Hampshire should have a presi- dential primary in which the voters cast their ballots directly for their favorite candidate.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Two Birds, One Stone: Reversing “Frontloading” by Fixing The
    Two Birds, One Stone: Reversing “Frontloading” by Fixing the Presidential Public Funding System By Matthew T. Sanderson Every four years, the campaign for the American presidency becomes increasingly “frontloaded”—more states move their primaries and caucuses earlier in the election year. A front-heavy, endless campaign pads political commentators’ and consultants’ pocket books, but harms nearly everyone else by making the campaign season longer and costlier, by disenfranchising voters in later-voting states, and by diverting focus and resources to an incessant campaign rather than governance. States would be collectively better off under a less frontloaded calendar, but individual states follow the irresistible impulse to move their contests earlier in self-interested pursuit of greater influence over the presidential nomination process. This race to the front has truly become a race to the bottom. Frontloading occurs because of the current presidential nomination process’s built-in incentives. States are assured an edge over their competitors by moving up their nomination contests. Individual states have no reason to move their nomination contests later because no advantage is achieved through delay. So long as this is the case, America’s frontloading problem will persist and perhaps worsen. Enter the now-defunct presidential public funding system (the “System”). The System is reeling after the 2008 general election. Barack Obama’s blockbuster fundraising and an increasingly long campaign calendar make the System’s public-funds-for-spending-limits tradeoff an untenable scheme in future elections. But the System need not be discarded, as some suggest. The System can pivot away from its existing structure and be retooled to combat frontloading.
    [Show full text]