Revamping Europe s Tattered Social Contract

Here, the feckless West torn between its democratic rhetoric and its antipathy to the Islamists showed its hand.

This painting is described by a critic as an allusion to the embarrassments of affluence resting on a tattered Philippine flag.

To give you a little bit of a sense of scale, that calving face in this picture is about 325 feet tall. That's 32 stories.

Sorceress, tranced, ecstatic, stock still on the sidewalk ragged coat hanging agape, passersby flowing around her, her mouth torn suddenly open as though in a scream, silently though, as though only in her brain or breast had it erupted.

Do international tribunals of the sort Milosevic faced before his death promote or postpone serious self reflection and reconciliation in damaged societies? Do they strengthen or undermine the political stability needed to rebuild wrecked communities and shattered economies?