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March madness in Monterrey: Billed as a conference to help the world's poor, the UN's Monterrey summit was not just about money, taxation, debt, or even development. It was also about power. (Cover Story: United Nations).
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's classic poem, "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner," a seaman tells of the catastrophes that befall his ship after he kills an albatross. Eventually his superstitious shipmates, dying of starvation and thirst, blame their troubles on him, claiming that his killing of the seabird has brought a curse upon them. They force the mariner to wear the body of the albatross hanging from his neck, until all but the mariner himself eventually starve to death. Thanks to Coleridge's timeless poem, the albatross has become a symbol of unnecessary burdens and the power of superstitious fear.
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