It was the best of days. It was the worst of days. Not in recent history has a twenty-four hour span brought such bipolar emotions. In Ukraine, a tormented people exercized their freedom and elected Viktor Yushchenko, a maverick reformer who has pledged to fight the Kremlin’s ambitions to reinitiate Soviet Imperialism. But just a few thousand miles away, tens of thousands of people were perishing at the hands of Mother Earth. A tsunami from an earthquake has now killed what (current) estimates show to be over 44,000 people from Sri Lanka to Thailand to Eastern Africa. This is roughly...