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Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Really easy tea leaves

Brian O’Neill

GENEVA – The United Nations food agency said on Friday a lack of funds had forced it to cut back rations for around one million people in Yemen, despite growing chronic hunger.

How this plays out will go a long way in telling you how closely rhetoric and reality will match up.

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