I think maybe it was only then that I really got the point about this decade, just as it was drawing to a close: that we are living through the end of 500 years of western ascendancy. . . .
Relative to initial expectations, and given that the heads of almost all leading nations attended, the recently concluded United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen was an embarrassing failure. . . .
In the Age of Discontinuity, published by Harper & Row at the height of the Vietnam War and some 25 years after the end of World War Two, management guru Peter Drucker wrote about managing change when there is a total disconnect between the past as we perceive it and the present evolving into the future. . . .
Naveed Haq has just been convicted of aggravated murder for killing one woman and injuring five others in a shooting spree at the offices of the Seattle Jewish Federation. . . .
