Indholdsfortegnelse for 11/27/2020 i Newsweek

1989 “The volume of garbage keeps growing,” Newsweek reported, “up by 80 percent since 1960, expected to mount an additional 20 percent by 2000. Not including sludge and construction wastes, Americans collectively toss out 160 million tons each year—enough to spread 30 stories high over 1,000 football fields, enough to fill a bumper-to-bumper convoy of garbage trucks halfway to the moon.” Fears grew as new landfills had to open—no one wants a landfill in their neighborhood. By 2017, Americans produced 267.8 million tons of garbage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. 1963 “There are signs that China’s Red rulers are taking a more pragmatic view,” wrote Newsweek. China stepped back from its “bellicose stance in a nuclear world,” instead shifting to a focus on “feeding the nation’s hungry millions.” Recently,…

“I’m not at all hooked in any high-tech internets. I don’t even have a (cell) phone, man. I’m talking to you from on a landline.”—KEITH RICHARDS “DO WE WANT TO WIN, DO WE WANT TO GOVERN, OR DO WE WANT TO BE INTERNET CELEBRITIES?”—House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries, on his party’s left wing “It started as just a very strange syndrome where I kept breaking into a terrible sweat. It was like a poncho of sweat, embarrassing really.”—HUGHGRANT ON COVID-19 “It will definitely start a conversation. It will definitely promote comment and debate and that’s good, that’s what Mary did all her life.”—U.K. AUTHOR BEE ROWLATT ON A NUDE STATUE HONORING MARY WOLLSTONE CRAFT “WHEN YOU HAVE PUBLIC FIGURES LIKE BANNON CALLING FOR YOUR BEHEADING, THAT’S REALLY KIND OF…

Saudi Arabia’s exciting journey to economic diversification offers a broad range of investment opportunities for adventurous and ambitious international enterprises, but such investors often require highly detailed knowledge of market conditions and potential pitfalls specific to individual commercial and trade sectors before committing significant sums of investment. As the world’s largest Sharia-compliant asset manager and the kingdom’s second-largest broker, NCB Capital has a wealth of industry experience and is a fully fledged investment bank that offers different kinds of asset management, brokerage and advisory services for clients. “One of the main game changers for investors are the amendments we have seen in Saudi regulations recently that have opened up options for those who want to pursue a particular business,” explains Sarah Jammaz Al Suhaimi, CEO, NCB Capital. “There are many…

Recently, Mr. Fu Shen made public his latest research result on “Taunting Magistrate Wang of Liyang County for Refusing to Drink”. Mr. Fu Shen, 83, is a famous Chinese art historian, appraiser of calligraphy and paintings, the former director of the Chinese Art Department of Freer Gallery of Art, a steering committee member of Taipei Palace Museum, a concurrent professor of the Institute of Art History of Taiwan University, a visiting professor of Zhejiang University, and an honorary professor of Nanjing University. Li Bai (701-762 A.D.) was a famous Chinese poet of Tang Dynasty. With the courtesy name of Taibai, as well as the pseudonyms of “Householder of Azure Lotus” and “Banished Transcendent”, he was also regarded as the “Immortal Poet” by later generations. When it comes to Li Bai’s…

@fredguterl SOMETHING RELATABLE“She was a human being, not just this monster.” » P.48 IN A ROLLING STONE INTERVIEW PUBLISHED IN 1985, Prince told writer Neal Karlen about a pivotal moment in his life: the time his father kicked him out of the house. From a pay phone, Prince pleaded with his dad to take him back: “He still said no. I sat crying at that phone booth for two hours. That’s the last time I cried.” It made for a terrific origin story: a sobbing kid—then known by his nickname Skipper—emerges from a phone booth to become Prince the star. Except it wasn’t true. As Karlen later learned, Prince’s father had never kicked him out. Karlen says, “Ken Kesey had that line: ‘The trouble with superheroes is what to do…

SARAH PAULSON HASTHE UNIQUE GIFT OF MAKING COMPLICATED, and often murderous, women relatable. “It’s my job as an actor to not judge the character I’m playing.” Rather, she hopes to bring the audience along on the journey, “even if they know it’s morally questionable or downright criminal.” That’s what she does as Diane Sherman in Run (Hulu, November 20). Paulson thinks audiences crave seeing nontraditional characters take center stage right now. “They want to see more narratives that represent their life more accurately. Not that this movie would do that, because then you might have some real trouble in your home life [laughs].” Next year, Paulson plays Linda Tripp, the whistleblower in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. “I don’t know that this will be a radical shift in terms of the way…

Nowhere in Saudi Arabia is the sheer scale of the kingdom’s stunning transformation into a diversified and knowledge-based economy more evident than in—as well as above—Dhahran, where the iconic King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) reaches high into the sky. Designed and built in just eight years, the award-winning 90-meter-tall structure is a thriving cultural hub that showcases and cel-ebrates human potential as the greatest source of change, and focuses on accelerating that potential by encouraging creativity, inspiring minds and empowering tal-ent among people of all ages. Inaugurated in 2016 by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Ithra was the brainchild of energy titan Saudi Aramco and is the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility initiative. It is the largest cultural contributor to Saudi Arabia. “Ithra is housed in an…

@fredguterl “I’m not at all hooked in any high-tech internets.” » P.16 IN THE WEEKS LEADING UP TO ELECTION DAY, the focus was on Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes as the potential fulcrum of victory in a tight race. As anticipated, the Keystone State did indeed put Joe Biden over the top. But in the end, the most consequential state of the 2020 race may turn out to be Georgia, one that most Democrats had written off. And the party largely has one person to thank for that: Stacey Abrams. The former gubernatorial candidate turned voting rights activist was a pivotal force in pushing Biden to apparent victory in Georgia, albeit by the slimmest of margins—just 14,000 votes or three-tenths of a percentage point—marking the first time since 1992…

1801 President John Adams established precedent by filling vacant judgeships before successor Thomas Jefferson could arrive, including the appointment of Chief Justice John Marshall, the longest-serving Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. An embittered Adams did not attend Jefferson’s inauguration. 1828 In December, less than a month after Andrew Jackson won the election, his wife, Rachel, died of a heart attack at age 61. Jackson blamed the vicious campaign, marked by personal attacks on both of them, for her death. 1860-61 During the transition between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln, seven of the 11 states that became the Confederacy seceded from the Union. The Civil War began one month after Lincoln took office. 1869 President Andrew Johnson did not attend successor Ulysses S. Grant’s inauguration because Grant refused to sit…

Prince Warner Brothers, 1979 Prince’s second album announced the arrival of a commercial and cultural force. It gave him his first gold single (“I Wanna Be Your Lover”) and a name for his funk-pop fusion (“The Minneapolis Sound”). Around the World in a Day Warner Brothers, Paisley Park, 1985 Prince’s Purple Rain follow-up showed he was more interested in taking uncharted paths than repeating himself. Although it went double platinum, briefly hit number one, and included the Top Ten singles “Raspberry Beret” and “Pop Life,” it was deemed a flop compared to Purple Rain. Batman Warner Brothers, 1989 The soundtrack to Tim Burton’s take on the Caped Crusader gave us “Partyman” and “Batdance.” When Oprah asked what the first song he ever played was, Prince said at age seven he…

The red carpets in Riyadh may have been rolled away due to the COVID-19 pandemic forcing this year’s G20 Leaders’ Summit in Saudi Arabia to be-come a high-profile virtual event rather than a glittering gathering in its modern and prosperous capital, but the kingdom will certainly look back on its presidency of the premier forum for international economic cooperation with great pride and a sense of real achievement. Through a series of focused discussions, conferences, forums, working groups and ministerial meetings, Saudi Arabia has developed a rewarding port-folio of projects and initiatives under the theme of “Realizing Opportunities of the 21st Century for All”. King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud had always expressed his unwavering confidence in his country’s G20 presidency: “We are undergoing a historic transformation under our Saudi…

The banking and financial services sectors have flourished under the watchful eye and steady hand of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA). As the kingdom’s central bank, SAMA has spearheaded fiscal developments and programmes on behalf of the government for nearly 70 years, with its comprehensive remit including responsibility for maintaining the national currency, supervision of commercial banks, management of foreign exchange reserves, and oversight of monetary policy. “Cooperation and collaboration have always been the hallmark of the G20,” says Ahmed A. Alkholifey, Governor, SAMA. “During the Saudi presidency of the G20 this year, we believe we have demonstrated this in the most challenging and testing circumstances, and at unprecedented scales with the COVID-19 pandemic. For the last two years, we have licensed foreign branches of reputable international banks that…

The digitalization drive in Saudi Arabia continues to accelerate as increasing numbers of companies harness the speed and efficiency of state-of-the-art hardware and software, with this positive trend most evident in the banking and financial services industries. Secure and streamlined frameworks have been designed to match global fintech benchmarks, with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) taking the best components of regulations from world-class financial centers including Singapore and London. Th rough fully owned subsidiary Saudi Payments, SAMA had a leading role in the creation of a safe, reliable, low-cost and efficient system for financial transactions and card payments made online, through ATMs or in shops and stores. Guided by the Financial Sector Development Program, the company’s work is an important conduit for the Vision 2030 goals of a cashless…