5 monthes ago | By Boston Herald
Davos is a place out of “Lost Horizon,” the 1933 novel that told of a magical Shangri-La. In Switzerland, that's Davos.
But musings from a mountainous utopia is the last thing the world needs right now. As the wire services say of this past week's virtual economic conference in Davos, the event is known for “hosting elites touting high-minded but often empty goals deemed out of touch with regular people.” Welcome to pandemic postulating. They hope to meet live in May, so all hope is not lost.
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