The three envelopes
Posted: October 30, 2009 at 5:57 a.m.
Old Soviet joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. “Niki, I’m dying. Don’t have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble.” A few years later, first crisis.
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Editorial, Pages 16 on 10/30/2009
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