They are lying fairly low after being labelled as Islamists and protégés of Qatar, the tiny but rich Gulf state that took the lead among Arabs in toppling the colonel.
Opening night is Tuesday, when the festival orchestra and the music director Louis Langr?present a tiny but rich selection of late symphonies: Mozart's G minor, No. 40, and Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde," which Mahler considered a symphony but did not number as such.
Mr. Rao is part of a growing body of economists, largely in academia, who question whether rapid economic growth rates in Asia — from the 10.3 percent expansion in giant-but-poor China to an expected 15 percent growth this year in tiny-but-rich Singapore — are necessarily producing a happier, healthier Asia.
On a continent still divided between the poor masses and a tiny but very rich elite, South Africa's black middle class, sometimes not always affectionately known as "buppies" (black up-and-coming professionals), is on the rise.Makwena Poopedi is part of this new middle class.
Obiang Nguema, the despotic president of the tiny (but oil rich) African nation since 1979, is best known for the nastiness of his rule (especially in his prisons), the clumsy way he rigs election results (typically claiming the support of nearly 99% of voters) and the breathtaking corruption which sees the ruling family syphoning off a large share of government cash for its own ends.
By the 1950s, tiny but oil-rich states did nicely.
The tiny but mega-rich emirate had poured $8 billion in Egypt since the revolution two-and-a-half years ago and perhaps another $9 billion to bankroll Islamists in Libya, Syria and Gaza, the Palestinian enclave run by Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
So he needed to be a tiny bit rich.
Even in a tiny landscape rich with survivors of war and persecution, Sharansky stood out.
It also underlined the ability of the tiny, fabulously rich Gulf state to punch above its weight internationally.
What, officials sniff privately, is tiny, shockingly rich Qatar aiming at, when its own rulers are as autocratic as any?A deeper criticism of Al Jazeera is not that it sponsors rebellion, but that it promotes one particular stripe.
