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A diffident figure, he lacks his predecessors showmanship, and indeed would not have
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Declaim
Block solidarity grows when leaders declaim against even a mild, or imagined, offence.
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Erudite
At once erudite and entertaining, he shows how the novels magic lies in its multitasking
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His policy activism was designed to replace that unexamined received opinion from the
past with expl ...
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For an artist, trying to depict the Deity could be more impious only than drawing
Muhammad.
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The government will then rent the homes to young couples, the more fecund the
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Its new 'model' treaty would compel foreign investors to seek redress in Indias clogged
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Although there is plenty to admire in the ambitious scope of this book, ultimately it is a
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Apr 12th 2017
Importune
Insurers typically seek a tie-up with a bank to identify and importune likely customers.
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Political scientists and data journalists have battled for years to supplant fact-free
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For one side to push the other to hew to the norm is costly, both because resources must
be spent ho ...
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Europes heads of government should stand against its latest power grab, which is to
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Mr Enwezor has a reputation for being a left-wing martinet. In the coming months, his
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She vows to close radical mosques, stanch the flow of immigrants to a trickle, obstruct
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The financier raised fresh capital for his bank by exploiting savings accounts... thus
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Those who reject her simply because she is a Clinton... are not paying attention to the
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Productions from all over the globe are looking to sate audiences desire for compelling
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Dr Trajkovski and his colleagues then arranged for mice that had been born and
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Some of its best properties could be sold quickly, but the dross might take years to
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Her words were meant to goad officials into action, not (presumably) to describe how
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With enough gall and entrepreneurial spirit, it suggests, anyone can end up driving a
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Greater liberty... over the past generation is abused by ingrates who think it funny to
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All else equal, such largesse should indeed give the economy some temporary vim.
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With these modish safety demonstrations becoming the norm, the question is what,
exactly, do they ac ...
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Leery
The past two decades have left working-class voters in many countries leery of
globalisation.
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Was this a fluke? Mr Baker is not the first to notice the anomaly.
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It was a stultifying procession of patriotic songs... insipid skits and bald propaganda.
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Indeed, in trying to whitewash the past, the government may stir up prejudice instead.
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Impugning Mr Abes motives is too cynical. His commitment to economic revival was no
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Conversely some prominent black women have called for a boycott, seeing Mr Parkers
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Democrats had spent a nervous September watching that lead whittle away after Mrs
Clintons bout of ...
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He often looked angry and some of his jibes sounded like mere insults, rather than
irreverent statem ...
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Some feminists argue, moreover, that the very framework of economics is imbued with
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They can be seen in the modest dress, office decor and eating habits of Angela Merkel,
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Pundit
And yet the prevailing view among pundits is that Russia is indeed back in Asia.
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A victorious Governor Jerry Brown, his voice gruffer, his pate sparer and his metaphors
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Alas, he never really fixed his states finances, and voters at home have tired of his
maudlin theat ...
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Machine translation, too, has gone from terrible to usable for getting the gist of a
text...
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The existential consequences of throwing off the yoke of religion is debated in many
countries.
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Other, darker interpretations of what malign force the monster may represent once
again abound...
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It is true that few artists have been so prolific. On average, he released a studio album
every year ...
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Qualms about the forces quality extend beyond their handling of demonstrators.
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Its minions have set up thousands of social-media bots and other spamming weapons
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...Mr Thaksins sister Yingluck, who took over his political movement after he left the
country and ...
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Fringe beliefs reinforced in these ways can establish themselves and persist long after
outsiders de ...
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The decision to abstain from such techniques, just and wise though it was, came at a
cost.
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As companies sour on future prospects, they also pare back their investmenta
potentially vicious ci ...
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And you must be ready to abandon tired orthodoxies of the left and right and forage for
good ideas a ...
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President Barack Obama didnt mince his words in a tweet on June 21st, the day after
the Senate fail ...
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This is likely to become a media circus, with patient advocates likely to attend and extol
the benef ...
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Providers have focused on the home, touting products such as coffee pots that turn on
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Its protagonists (played by the suitably pallid and slender Tom Hiddleston and Tilda
Swinton) are na ...
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Falter
His early steps were faltering, and a frailer soul might have been daunted by his
mentors fate...
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These oversights mar an otherwise engaging and interesting account, but perhaps it is
natural that a ...
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These daily updates were designed to help readers keep abreast of the markets...
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But there are still no checks and balances on its exercise, as the larceny of governors
illustrates. ...
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One particular separatist faction is now widely accepted to have been responsible for a
string of sm ...
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In the past its neighbours isolated and upbraided Austria for its flirtations with
nationalist extr ...
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If the Senate deigns to consider and confirm a nominee, do not expect changes
overnight.
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Yet in another sense, the Fed has confounded predictionsat least, those it made
itself.
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The Holey Artisan Bakery... overlooking a placid lake in Dhaka, was a foodies labour of
love in a v ...
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The indolence of a society brought up to expect that oil riches will be lavished upon
them is anothe ...
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There are aunts for every worldview, from libertine to puritan and from reactionary to
radical.
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By the time Mr Pattinson came along as the winsome vampire in Twilight, the teenage
rebels were st ...
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The political economy of trade is treacherous: its benefits, though substantial, are
diffuse...
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Unlike many writers of Spanish, he preferred short, simple sentences, and they gave his
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In effect, the partys hallowed notion of 'collective' leadership has been jettisoned.
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Mr Sasse demurs. He does not want less fighting between the left and right. He wants
more meaningfu ...
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This 12th-century incense burner is incised with calligraphy that identifies its maker and
first own ...
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That can cause malnutrition and eating disordersand supports a vast, quack-ridden
diet industry.
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The 'control' group was asked a series of anodyne questionsfor instance, how many
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But I hesitate before such minced words, which carry with them the tinge of
condescension and impute ...
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China had expected to win the status of a market economy in December, 15 years after
its accession t ...
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This being America, there are plenty of businesspeople around to monetise the furyto
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Surveys show that millennial consumers are eschewing 'stuff' in favour of experiential
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Mr Walesas most fervid opponents are not aging apparatchiks, but other men who
battled communism, s ...
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With the euro crisis in abeyance, high oil prices have become the latest source of worry
for the wor ...
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Mars will be as far away as 370m kilometres in 2013, and occluded for two weeks by the
sun to boot.. ...
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Weakening the legislature in a nascent democracy will not fix corruption by itself.
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It can remain temperate in such a close orbit only because Proxima is a red dwarf, and
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But in recent years they have become particularly verbose, bombarding consumers with
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'More disturbing,' says Mr Hart, I didn't note that his column was facetious. In tone ...
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But sham democracy often whets peoples appetite for the real thing.
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She writes...in the knowledge that some of these lovers will snoop into her diary to see
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But it was his zeal in amassing land by borrowing heavily that gave him his edgeand
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As any computer scientist will tell you, creating an ersatz version of something in
software is inev ...
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Over the past year, numerous young directors have been paying gushing homage to the
movies which enc ...
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One of the mysteries of epidemiology is why Asia does not suffer from yellow fever. The
disease is e ...
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By choosing such an unimpeachably serious and artistic project as its first film
production, the co ...
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CNN and other outlets were wrong to turn one disgruntled passengers Facebook diatribe
into headline ...
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Its publications and social-media accounts, however, have vilified Turkey ever since the
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The first was a chronic lack of focus. Right from the start Yahoo was ambivalent about
whether it sh ...
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'Fire at Sea' has been praised for offering an oblique, poetic alternative to a more conve
...
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The government must 'protect passenger safety by mandating minimum seat pitch
standards to prec ...
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Since 1986 he has been asking candidates for public office to sign his Taxpayer
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Morose
Mr Macrons can-do political energy stands out in morose France, home to 10%
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The elder Bongo had a gift for politics as outsized as his personality (among other
foibles, he like ...
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In 1957 New Yorks subway contained a haphazard mishmash of fonts, both serif and
sans, and a typog ...
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Critics refer to a cult of acolytes around a Great Leader, unwilling to challenge him
or engag ...
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The Catalan impasse is part of a wider Spanish gridlock. Elections on December 20th
splintered the p ...
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The execution of its leaders, as much as the Easter Rising itself, triggered a maelstrom of
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Listless
Ukraine is brimming with weapons and thousands of militiamen, angry with a corrupt
and listless gove ...
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But Muhammad bin Salman is not merely a young face in a gerontocracy; he is a dynamic
and apparently ...
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People walk on two legs like most avian species. They are also largely diurnal and rely
upon sight ...
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Mr Gioia also delves into musical theory, in a way that will help both jazz neophytes and
experts un ...
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Madame JoJos, a burlesque bar in Londons Soho, had its licence revoked in 2014 after
two bouncers ...
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Shows that revolve around women are so few and far between. The ones that exist are
expected not onl ...
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The prospect of a day spent milling around... at the G20 summit this week, with nothing
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Four things have made Europe a harsher environment for the centre left: its own
success, structural ...
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Whatever the outcome of individual claims, the barrage of litigation will probably
prompt firms to a ...
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It also has proportionately more immigrants than almost anywhere else. Next to
London, famously cosm ...
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[Labour] did not fall into the traps of the old left: confusing individualism for
misanthropy...
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But shamelessly self-interested and probably contrary to his real views on the EU
though it is, the ...
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...Japanese philosopher and merchant, Tominaga Nakamoto, who was highly critical of
the normative th ...
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By the 1970s, many fans argued that the spectacle of hapless pitchers feebly trying to
fend off blaz ...
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The authors give it a rather grandiloquent name: the desire 'to force destiny, to create
serend ...
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One can quibble with some of the detail; perhaps the labour market participation rate
can rise agai ...
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That might just persuade them to forgive the scriptwriters for the unwelcome disruption
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Heterodox
Among those discriminated against for holding heterodox religious views, the Bahai
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Mr Harding is more comfortable with facts; with classic English reticence, he buries his
familys re ...
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The voters may opine on the overarching principle but the voters cannot get involved in
the minutiae ...
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This provoked widespread debate about the role of intellectual property and earned him
the sobriquet ...
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Some chapters read like a thriller, because they offer a microscopic look at the
unwholesome nexus b ...
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Karo Akpokiere, from Nigeria, will present a series of droll paintings inspired by the fast-
moving p ...
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The reason for that emphasis may in part be because of the salient threat of terrorism...
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Yet Ms McInerney takes the story deeper, skilfully setting a funeral pyre 'for that
Ireland ...
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Syncopation
She dances an assortment of lissom steps, marvellously shedding shoes and socks as the
Beethoven fam ...
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For now the policy remains somewhat inchoate, but already free-market types are
worried.
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Second, a quick mind: he wrote with speed and panache, after strolling round leisurely
with a big ci ...
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He condemned the 'anarchical plutocracy' he lived in, scorning the depravity of modern
soc ...
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The building, which once served as the local town hall, boasts rococo wall carvings, a
statue of Pal ...
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So the correct response is to...plump up the capital cushions of its vulnerable banks
with enough pu ...
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In the soporific heat you would be forgiven for thinking that time had forgotten the New
Jersey-size ...
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When he was a young tyro in Silicon Valley, his libertarian vision inspired many of his
business dec ...
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Yet the paucity of businesses is not due to a shortage of opportunities to make money.
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Thanks to these sensible policies, and the fortuitous tailwind of higher productivity
growth, the ec ...
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His son, himself a wizened old man, is nonplussed by the news; he looks like an
eccentric, or maybe ...
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The Russians have responded with predictable piquejust as many refused to condemn
the violence of t ...
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Petro Poroshenko, Ukraines president, takes umbrage at charges that reforms are
lagging.
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The period from the 1940s to the 1970s, when governments took primary responsibility
for keeping eco ...
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Americas founders, he argued, put their faith in reasoned discussion among citizens
and believed th ...
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The more a society treats its businesspeople as hero savants based on their professional
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In a terse phone-call on Thursday night, President Barack Obama paused only briefly to
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Oct 14th 2016
Canonical
The medium now mostly consists of recycling the same canonical works by European
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They are seers, and mystics unfettered by the quotidian, connecting with the divine and
reporting ba ...
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Pessimists think the productivity problem is chronic. Technological advances, they say,
are ever-les ...
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End a sentence in a preposition, and there are still people who will think you a boor.
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It sang of domineering men, treacherous women and the manly solace of tequila.
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Mr Camerons government was too posh, too cocky, too blithe about globalisations
merits, too metrop ...
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With distinct ballad, opera and hard rock sectionsand a pensive intro and coda, for
good measureth ...
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General Electric... is now swapping its bucolic site for a collection of warehouses on the
Boston wa ...
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Dr Decety is not the first to wonder, in a scientific way, about the connection between
religion and ...
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Europe, which is where the global refugee regime began 65 years ago... will have to be
the catalyst ...
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Modern pursuers are not so lucky. Who pays? When can one text? Just how aloof should
one be?
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Blight
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Rashad Ali... argues that deradicalisation can be worse than useless if practitioners,
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The Fed will probably need convincing that the latest labour-market report was an
aberration before ...
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But there is a body of academic work that supports the idea that elections often misfire.
For one th ...
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Marion Nestle's heavyweight polemic against Coca-Cola and PepsiCo comes at an odd
moment for th ...
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It was as audacious as any heist and yet unlikely material for a Hollywood blockbuster.
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Cynics may ascribe Mr Rubios mild tone to the diverse population of his home state, and
the fact th ...
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However, while it is large-scale evacuations at times of crisis that grab attention, the
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Frieze
A frieze on the wall of America's Supreme Court shows some of the great law-givers of
history, ...
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This insane lacuna in the justice system reflects extreme systemic prejudice by drivers
against cycl ...
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In a move that may test the mettle of recalcitrant Senate Republicans, Barack Obama
nominated Merric ...
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A glance at videos from the age presents spectacles far removed from todays tightly
drilled choreo ...
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The only way to know for sure is to run the experiment (Mr Lind's exotic epistemology
notwithst ...
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'The decay of American politics,' Mr Fukuyama writes, 'will probably continue until s ...
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Patrick Stewart, for instance, reworked Hamlets soliloquy as an ode to the letter B ('B
or not ...
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Yet if the hegemony of the dollar is unstable, its would-be successors are unsuitable.
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Last year Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, brought in a corporate-governance code
which...requires hi ...
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More worryingly, there was a hermetic logic to them which, with the passions they
aroused, made it p ...
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Like a saintly relic, the gossamer threads that tie the two halves offer the promise of
miraculous h ...
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Mr Boehner, having abandoned his long battle with his partys truculent right-wingers
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Sometimes the old army dictum 'Dont volunteer for anything' must be broken.
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But Mr Kim is so opaque and so little is known about how decisions come about in the
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