Commentary

ONE British playwright in medieval theater times, Hannah More, called forgiveness an economy of the heart... for it saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred and the waste of spirits. Today those words reckon our understanding with greater passion as we commemorate the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

NEARLY four years after the start of the global financial crisis, many are wondering why economic recovery is taking so long. Indeed, its sluggishness has confounded even the experts. According to the International Monetary Fund, the world economy should have grown by 4.4% in 2011, and should grow by 4.5% in 2012.