Results for “World Journal”

… Statesmanship and leadership.. During the last three years we have been living through a geo political earthquake. The world order, which existed since the demise of the Ottoman Empire, is collapsing.The Arab Spring appears to have turned into an Islamist Winter. Borders are era...

… run a nationwide system of Internet-filtering in 2013, but it requires their telecommunication companies furnish to it worldwide data. The NSA also had to deal with many peripheral issues other than the activities of Russia and China. It was charged with monitoring everything f...

Died Jan. 2 of a heart attack on his first day of retirement. Fred Turner, 80. As CEO at McDonald’s Corp., now the world’s largest restaurant company, he introduced Chicken McNuggets, the Egg McMuffin and Happy Meals. Died Jan. 7 of complications from pneumonia. Ada Louise Huxt...

… was made to reconcile Torah (scripture) and Madah (secular knowledge). They were simply distinct and entirely separate world views (or as my late colleague Steven Jay Gould put it in his always elegant choice of words, "separate magisteria"). We lived by the rule of separation b...

…velopmental miracle is founded on globalization, as Chinese workers made China the low-cost manufacturing center of the world. But China's old model no longer works－for one, workers must be paid higher salaries to rebalance severe socio-economic imbalances. China must develop n...

…d together, unified, in such a struggle, however tough it will become, even if we will be forced to confront the entire world. There is no power in the world that can force on us collective national suicide. Peace will be achieved only if there is a willingness to negotiate on bo...

…est man there is. It was the finest moment of my life in 1986 when I married — him. He is a great man, the best in the world.” “I won't stand by —because I know what it feels like to have salacious lies made up about you—and not support him so pug licly because they are just s...

…ight into it on the first day and didn’t need a single lesson.” Since installation, the airplane has been all over the world and not a single component of the entertainment system has needed to be changed, said Justice. However, he adds, on several occasions, when the airplane w...

… (he is, beyond the joke, a great Nobokov fan). Or, in a more sophisticated view, it’s a two tier understanding of the world. There is a media version of the world, in which most of us live and largely accept, and are certainly influenced by. And then there are those people who...

…ontender since ancient times. But how reliable is its value? Spain and Portugal stockpiled gold and silver from the new world for two centuries, and bought nothing but inflation for their trouble. Gold is good for filling teeth, and for displaying status so long as it is rare. Th...

a future based heavily on offshore wind and solar will be a brave new world of

and further strengthened ties with Iran. Once China was accepted into the World

such terrorist schemes as the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center

our Islamic Enemy seeks the totalitarian domination of Islam throughout the world —

while recognizing that their advocates (like most of the intellectual world in the case of secular