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And Alexander's mantle?

My old man's in the construction business in Wichita, Kansas. He wants me to come home and go to work for him.

The cloak of Alexander cannot be too heavy for Rome and Egypt to carry together.

Good deal. Twenty years from now I'll put my kid on it.

What do you say you and Georgie bury the hatchet and Sunday morning the three of us will sail up there and catch our limit.

A mortar is used for manually grinding solids. It can also be used to homogenize a mixture of powders by grinding. A club shaped tool known as a pestle is used with the mortar for grinding.

Soon, there will be someone to carry both the cloak of Alexander and the sword of Caesar and the name of Caesar.

If I had not known better, I might have thought that the word aliyev meant street, because it appeared on almost every street sign. But it was the name of the ruler, Heydar Aliyev, whose son, Ilham, succeeded him in 2003 and remains President to this day.

Greece has seen the rise of an overtly fascist party, Golden Dawn, which proudly celebrates the legacy of former dictator Ioannis Metaxas. Although Golden Dawn has existed for roughly two decades, only in the last year did it gain enough support to enter parliament.

Was it to do what Democrats do, but do it better? Was it to starve the beast by pumping up government debt to the point that social programs would have to be cut?

India slowly repealed many of these burdensome regulations in the 1980s, when Nehru s grandson, Rajiv Gandhi, was in power. Then, following reforms initiated by his successors atop the Indian National Congress, Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh, India entered a confident new era of flourishing growth and socioeconomic dynamism.

Today s China is the leading bearer of the mercantilist torch, though Chinese leaders would never admit it 160 too much opprobrium still attaches to the term. Much of China s economic miracle is the product of an activist government that has supported, stimulated, and openly subsidized industrial producers both domestic and foreign.

Today s China is the leading bearer of the mercantilist torch, though Chinese leaders would never admit it too much opprobrium still attaches to the term. Much of China s economic miracle is the product of an activist government that has supported, stimulated, and openly subsidized industrial producers both domestic and foreign.

India s essential challenge is to take up Gandhi s mantle and boldly imagine a future that is different from the West s present. Of course, no one is under the illusion that India or any other country will abandon its cities for a life as simple as the one Gandhi strove to live but that doesn t mean that India can t look to Gandhi s core values for inspiration.

Alan Greenspan attained an almost iconic status as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board. So, as his term draws to a close and his mantle of infallibility is passed on to his successor, it is worth examining whether his legacy will measure up and what we can expect from the new Fed chief, Ben Bernanke.

They presided over institutions that made large profits for a substantial period of time by mispricing risk, and then argued for public support on the grounds that they were too big to fail. They appeared arrogant and overpaid, and were easily demonized.

Beyond taking up Deng s mantle in pursuing market oriented economic reforms, he has been directing a bold anti corruption campaign since coming to power. In July, he launched a formal investigation into one of the Chinese Communist Party s most senior figures, Zhou Yongkang a testament to his commitment to rooting out abuse of power.

The main opposition leader, Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has moved aggressively to lay claim to the legacy of one of India s most respected founders, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Like Modi, Patel was from Gujarat, where Modi is now Chief Minister.

His thinking had a strong normative foundation, but his keen understanding of the world led him to approach foreign policy with a sense of humility and strategic patience. It is this rare combination of morality and perseverance that is his legacy as a foreign policy thinker and practitioner.

And any attempt to make investment bankers suffer more last fall and winter would have put the entire support operation at risk. As Fed Vice Chairman Don Kohn said, ensuring that a few thousand investment bankers receive their just financial punishment is a non starter when attempts to do so put the jobs of millions of Americans and tens of millions outside the US at risk.

Both men were faced with a serious breakdown of law and order in their respective domains, involving violence and rioting against Muslims. But Patel s conduct during the violence that accompanied Partition stands in stark contrast to Modi s behavior in office.

There is a particular irony to a self proclaimed Hindu nationalist like Modi, whose speeches reveal a thinly veiled contempt for Muslims, laying claim to the legacy of a Gandhian leader who would never have qualified his Indian nationalism with a religious label. Patel would have been outraged not only by Modi s conduct in office, but by the kind of remarks that Modi has repeatedly made against minorities.

This is the complex world in which Obama takes up the mantle of leadership. He inherits a global economic crisis, two wars in which US and allied troops are deployed, crises in the Middle East and South Asia, and a struggle against terrorism.

Having socialized banks losses after we had seen the privatization of their gains, our rage quotient has shot up once more at the news that the banks we saved are again filling the troughs into which all those snouts are enthusiastically dipped. The sheer unseemliness of what is happening raises blood pressure as well as eyebrows.

He inherits a global economic crisis, two wars in which US and allied troops are deployed, crises in the Middle East and South Asia, and a struggle against terrorism. He will have to deal with this legacy and chart a new course at the same time.

In a globalized world, national governments ability to tax potentially mobile factors of production is sharply circumscribed. The same mechanism that pours profits into the pockets of global corporations also prevents governments from claiming a larger share of the spoils.