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June 6th, 2002
Whirled Bank
You can’t say the anti-globalisation crowd doesn’t have a sense of humour. This mock World Bank site is brilliant and informative, even if I don’t agree with all the conclusions. I particularly liked the account details for poor countries in the Insecure Online Bank.
Blogger News Item
June 6th, 2002
Party planner to the power elite
Joe Klein does a brilliant gift for the bon mot. “I will not yammer on about the glories of Rome, present or past (the latter, dicey for an American) – or about the fact that, contrary to the popular British analogy, America is Greece, not Rome. (Britain, which styles itself Greece, used to be Rome and is now Gaul, though divided into four parts.)”
His interview with Berlusconi is interesting because it pins down a lot of what Italians find attractive about this egregious man.