As a result, Americans increasingly are becoming their own bank tellers, loan officers, insurance adjusters, checkout clerks, restaurant ordertakers, citrus-crop inspectors and mall concierges.
Will it seriously influence the scorekeepers, let alone the corporate risk-takers, that Indonesia under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appeared to be cementing its order in free elections even as Thailand writhed in what is (albeit roughly) a republican-monarchist tussle?