<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>... by twenty-something kids fresh from Oxbridge. The last couple here in Jo'burg -- Sebastian Mallaby and Adam Roberts -- were/are classic cases. I debated Roberts a few weeks ago at the W$$D preps for journalists and he pushed yesterday's conventional wisdom: that Mbeki was good for democracy in Africa. One word from me -- Zimbabwe -- brought a nice blush to his face.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P> <B><I>Doug Henwood <<A href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com</A>></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV>James Fallows had a very nice piece on the Washington Post a few <BR>years ago on the American cult of The Economist - it appealed to <BR>insecure Americans who ju loved that dose of English snobbery and <BR>know-it-all-ism. Yawn.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>