the first dramatic signal from the U.S. administration that it is now ready to confront the pandemic and to save or prolong millions of lives.

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

Gordon Brown's proudest boast is that, during his stewardship, the U.K. economy has consistently grown from one quarter to the next. The Bank Governor seems to be saying that this achievement was primarily a 'nice' decade phenomenon, and not the hard-won and well-merited result of outstandingly successful policies.

How do you save married women, who have no choice?

I don't think the world yet realizes the carnage that is to come. I don't think the world yet realizes the full, incomparable horror of AIDS, and its inexorable spread around the planet.

But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.

In some ways, I think people who have been in the career service have an advantage.

I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.

I'm not big on titles, but I think any title that is associated directly with the Secretary General will gain access.

The large German banks now seem to be more interested in competing with Anglo-Saxon banks in international markets than in nurturing their long-standing domestic lending business.