A time of reflection
Reading and watching the news of late is like flipping through a modern day interpretation of the Old Testament: pestilence, war, famine and death are everywhere, and it seems someone up above is angry. From Japan to Libya and New Zealand to Yemen, the headlines are fraught with pictures of the world quite simply gone wrong. A friend who heads the credit desk at a global bank told me he cannot count the number of people who have called looking to profit from recent events.
And then there are glimmers of hope, like a picture of rescue workers taking the time to pray for a body pulled from rubble in a town in northern Japan, or the incredible amount of charity funds the Red...
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