Other than Nouriel Roubini at N.Y.U., not many people saw a collapse coming.
The sickening Louima incident--a story that seemed more like a dispatch from Bosnia or Iraq--quickly changed that Yet it is worth remembering that only a week earlier some of the officers who were implicated in the incident had risked their lives to rescue people from a collapsing building: they had reemered the scene of the disaster even after being ordered, for their own safety, to withdraw.
In turn, those of us who continue to support the moderate opposition must persuade them that the Syrian people cannot afford a collapse of state institutions, and that a political settlement cannot be reached without addressing the legitimate fears of Alawites and other minorities.
Add to that the peculiar wrinkles of growing up in the aughts — an economy that's kept many living with parents or, alternately, moving far from the people they know; a collapse of institutional power that's left many without a local social hub — and it's little surprise that 11percentt of adults aged 18 to 37 claim their relationships with friends don't bring them happiness.
Meanwhile, it may be scant comfort to the Greek people, forced to endure a collapse in GDP and a rise in unemployment on the scale suffered by the US at the time of the Great Depression, that their grief is perhaps just one strand in a "three-part crisis trilogy" of the 2008 crash, the eurozone meldown of 2011 and now the emerging markets.
Actually, people don't want a collapse of the financial system, but they don't want bailouts with no consequences to those that created the problem in the first place and were poor stewards of their financial institutions.
A Spectator interview found him glossing the Boris knifing thus: "I compare it to a group of people standing outside a collapsing building, wondering who is going to rescue a child inside.
The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan, in Mexico City, has been told there might be as many as 30 people trapped inside a collapsed six-storey apartment and office block.
We don't want, for instance, to create a world where automated weapons unleash large-scale destruction or one where overefficient robots taking people's jobs lead to a collapse of the world economy.
Many families lost people (a nearby kindergarten building collapsed), and if the healthy left, who would look after the young ones and the elders?
