What eventually brought Cleveland back into the fray, Senik says, was a deep dissatisfaction with the populist drift of the Democratic Party, as well as “a concern that the likely alternative nominee—his successor as New York governor, David B. Hill—would draw the party towards the kind of...
Also, some of the store managers complained that the company was becoming too bureaucratic; rising bureaucracy is a common source of diseconomies of scale. If a business becomes too bureaucratic, it means that too many resources are being used up in administration. Too much...
Piketty’s new book, Capital et idéologie, was released in France last week but the English translation will not be out until next March. It runs to 1,232 pages and is as long as War and Peace – explores the ideas that have justified inequality down the ages, bemoans the ineffectivenes...
you marry me was written, without the usual question mark. designed by the architect lord richard rogers, who also designed london’s iconic lloyd’s building, one hyde park has divided britain. gary hersham, managing director of the high-end real-estate agency beauchamp estates, says it is...
Our first couple of games took about three hours, but even then we didn't feel the game was outstaying its welcome. With experience and fairly quick play, a game could be over in as little as two hours. The fact that a full game is divided into three campaigns that are somewhat ...
Fifth; the rest of the economy will be directed towards supplying the immensely rich 1% or so with the playthings they desire, be that enormous luxury yachts, houses, vehicles, estates or maybe just a totally pointless trip into space, perhaps to a resort on the moon. Sixth; enough idiotic...
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There was a Dsquared line about the Iraq war, that genuinely good ideas don't need you to tell lies about them to sell them. I kind of feel the same way about the popularity of suburban living -- while I'm sure there are many people who love it, the fact that it's explicitly ill...
In Britain, afterNick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, was cleared for stirring up racial hatred by calling Islam “a wicked, vicious faith.” Gordon Brown, by many considered PM Tony Blair’s likely successor, immediately pledged to strengthen hate speech laws: “I think an...
From north to south, it is divided into the three major island groupings of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao and for administrative purposes, into 17 regions: eight in Luzon; three in the Visayas; and six in Mindanao. History and leadership The Philippines was colonized by Spain for almost 400...