Politicians want to get re-elected. They want citizens to think that everything is OK. If there are energy supply problems, they need to be framed as being temporary, perhaps related to the war in Ukraine. Alternatively, any issue that arises will be discussed as if it can...
which would be viewed as having passed to the successful rebel who replaced them. Maybe by someone with no claim to distinguished ancestry, as with the founder of the highly successful
When U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited South Africa last August, South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor made it clear that "you can't just come in and claim to lecture about democracy ... Foreign interference has created instability, including...
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I was 14, and in the following years I learned how to not freeze in the face of sweet nothings. But that frozen sensation—the sensation of having been caught in the act of playing someone who is there to be looked at—creeps up nearly every time a man I’m dating looks at me and...
Amdahl’s Law can help you be more realistic about the effects of performance improvements, but I claim it can also lead you to overly pessimistic conclusions, which I will demonstrate in this article.Okay, well, let’s plug in the numbers from our Pasta House example. The beams take 10 ...
This is where I believe that they will keep on using these statements to claim their ‘special rights’ and this is where Chinese and Indians have trouble. However I believe that Malaysia is Malaysia today because of the people in it. First of all, Chinese and Indians cannot be blamed fo...
Having been to Thailand already, I knew that everything would be easier this time around. And as I mentioned earlier, I love easy. I was assuming (hoping) that the other countries we were going to visit would be just as easy. Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Malaysia were all neighbouring ...
4 That day--may it turn to darkness; may God above not care about it; may no light shine upon it.5 May darkness and deep shadow claim it once more; may a cloud settle over it; may blackness overwhelm its light.6 That night--may thick darkness seize it; may it not be included ...
A remarkable example of high-speed rail leading to an entirely unan- ticipated labor (and cultural) migration is the phenomenon described by The Economist as "Paris-on-Thames," the creation, within just 20 years, of a vibrant French community in London, "Gallicizing" everything from the ...