Reassurance, NYT-style

[Carl Remick]

Here's an interesting window on the mentality of the New York Times,
from an article on global economic turmoil -- "Chicken Little! Shut Up!"
-- that ran in the paper's Week In Review section yesterday:

"Maybe it was just a false dawn -- there have been plenty of those.  But
... there was hope last week that the worst of the global economic
financial upheaval might be passing....  Sure, Indonesia has turned into
a lawless land, with mobs burning out the shops of ethnic Chinese
merchants and chopping off the heads of suspected sorcerers, but its
currency, the rupiah, is making a surprising comeback."

Looks like a good segue into ol' Oliver Goldsmith:  "Ill fares the land,
to hast'ning ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay ...."

Carl Remick