A Year of Living on the Brink

Ebola, ISIS, Ukraine, a stock-market wipeout—there’s nowhere to hide. 

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DANIEL HENNINGER

Oct. 15, 2014 7:14 p.m. ET

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History will mark down 2014 as the year predicted 49 years ago by Martha and the Vandellas. In 1965 the group recorded a Motown classic, “Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide.” We’re there, at the brink.