Nevertheless, the 20th anniversary of the collapse of communism is overshadowed by the global financial and economic crisis.

This is encouraging, especially after years of declining trends.

Its membership, its increasing politicization and its overall lack of effectiveness at tackling human rights violations around the world have overwhelmed its achievements.

Yet the desire to hold assets that avoid the medium term risks associated with the business cycle has overwhelmed this long run fundamental risk factor.

It's as if some new hit style had completely wiped out the old fashioned style before, and with no golden oldies stations.

Einstein became a humanitarian, not because of his exquisite knowledge of space and time and matter, but because he was a Jew as Germany grew fascist.

Due to several anti Semitic outbursts from some protesters, the reporting on Gaza over the past few weeks has been overshadowed by a debate on anti Semitism, and it no longer seemed feasible to promote discourse on current foreign policy in Israel.

Whatever symbolic value this may have is overshadowed by the fact that the statute of limitations already precludes any legal action on this issue.

From the 14th to 11th centuries BC Assyria once more became a major power with the rise of the Middle Assyrian Empire which dominated the whole of Mesopotamia and much of the Near East and Anatolia.

MADRID The continued leaking of classified information by the former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has provoked heated debate about privacy and international law, which, unfortunately, has overshadowed the geostrategic dimension of his actions.

Given these factors, it seems likely that the recent devaluation was driven by a different goal. And, in fact, an announcement made on the same day as the devaluation one that has been largely overshadowed by the panic offers an important indication of what that goal was.