Any New Financial Order For

We Read Too Much Shakespeare At School, And View Our Parliamentary Politics As Dynastic Drama, In Which An Impatient Crown Prince Frets At His Long Subordination And Begins To Scheme For The Throne He Knows He Merits, Was Promised And Has Earned.

Osama Bin Laden, The Saudi-born Revolutionary Who Is Believed By Most Arab And Iranian Observers To Be The Inspiration Of The Attacks In New York And Washington, Is The Best Known Of The Islamic Militants To Have Emerged In The Past 20 Years And The Least Difficult To Fathom.

The Aircraft That Blew Up The World Trade Center In New York And The Pentagon In Washington Conveyed Several Messages To The World, Of Which One Of The Least Remarked Is This: The Muslims Of The World Are Suffering.

Nature Is Not Simply A Technical Or Economical Resource, And Human Beings Are Not Mere Numbers. To Suggest That One Can Somehow Align All The Squabbling Institutions Of Science, Environmental Management, Government And Diplomacy In An Alliance Of Convenience To Regulate The Global Climate Seems To Me Optimistic.

Any New Financial Order For The World Must Tackle The Three Chief Challenges Of Our Age.