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In World War II German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was the legendary “Desert Fox” (“Wuestenfuchs”). Today in Libya, Col. Muammar Qaddafi is crazy like a fox. In the past few weeks, Qaddafi’s army has been driving east across the Libyan Desert, rolling up the democratic forces who bravely rose up …

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is in the news. He is entitled to the presumption of innocence — but the rape charges against him symbolize the IMF: an institution of privilege that routinely acts to the disadvantage of the vulnerable. The IMF’s founding purpose vanished …

I graduated from Morehouse College with a degree in mathematics in 1967. Back then, we didn’t use fancy calculators to solve problems. Instead, we utilized formulas to “solve for x.” The same holds true in life. Throughout my own, “solving for x” meant learning how to nurture a family, how …