The DRC has been an outstanding example of that for seven years. We've seen wars that have led to the deaths of millions of people, and yet it is rarely reported in the Western press.

The threat table tries to identify the states where the threat is greatest, and, when we ran the figures, Iraq came out on top.

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.

We didn't know we had such a good example so close by.

The unfortunate thing for the Philippines is that the terminal saga is a high-profile example, one which you can't miss as you fly into Manila, of how politics, business, the legal system and bureaucracy can become entangled to produce a debilitating effect on economic development.

It's an unfair system, ... You can go to one particular block in Long Island, for example, where 11 houses got a tax reduction last year because they filed grievances. The remaining 4 homeowners who didn't file a grievance are still overpaying. In most municipalities, if you don't file it means you accept the assessment value of your home.