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AND THE MOST IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE...: 27 Aug 2013 | 05:18 am
AMERICA HANGING IN THERE BETTER THAN RIVALS (Joel Kotkin, 08/26/2013, New Geography) [T]he Middle Kingdom appears headed toward what one analyst calls "the end" of its amazing and profound economic m...
DO LESS, BE JUST AS PRODUCTIVE: 27 Aug 2013 | 05:14 am
In praise of laziness : Businesspeople would be better off if they did less and thought more (Schumpeter, Aug 17th 2013, The Economist) It is high time that we tried a different strategy--not "leanin...
SURE, THE BUREAUCRACY IS BAD...: 27 Aug 2013 | 05:02 am
Microsoft's Lost Decade : Once upon a time, Microsoft dominated the tech industry; indeed, it was the wealthiest corporation in the world. But since 2000, as Apple, Google, and Facebook whizzed by, it...
INEVITABLE ALLIES: 27 Aug 2013 | 04:15 am
The Middle East's Arc of Prosperity (Anne-Marie Slaughter, 26 August 2013, Project Syndicate) In the immortal words of James Carville, Bill Clinton's campaign manager in 1992, "It's the economy, stup...
HIRE ACTORS, THEY'RE CHEAPER: 27 Aug 2013 | 03:54 am
The Placebo Effect Is Real. Now Doctors Just Have To Work Out How To Use It (Ben Schiller, 8/26/13, Co.Exist) To Kaptchuk, the placebo effect is brought about by much more than sugar pills and saline...
Untitled 26 Aug 2013 | 03:36 pm
Tom Christian, Descendant of Bounty Mutineer, Dies at 77 (MARGALIT FOX, August 23, 2013, NY Times) Though Mr. Christian was the world's best-known contemporary Pitcairner, word of his death -- repor...
THE SHAPER OF THINGS TO COME: 26 Aug 2013 | 03:34 pm
Rowhani the Decision Shaper (Mohammad Ali Shabani, Mahsa Rouhi | August 26, 2013, National Interest) Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad failed to influence nuclear policy because he couldn't use th...
HOW WWI WAS LOST: 26 Aug 2013 | 03:19 pm
Democracy and Islamic law : Should a nation be defined by language and territory, by ruling party or by faith (Roger Scruton, 8/22/13, BBC) To understand what is happening in the Middle East today we...
THE NEXT ISLAMIST GOVERNMENT IS THE SUCCESSFUL ONE: 25 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
Can Egypt Learn From Thailand? (JONATHAN TEPPERMAN, 8/22/13, NY Times) The trouble really began in 2006, when the military, in connivance with royalists and the courts, overthrew the populist prime m...
ANTI-WAR MEMORIAL: 25 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
The real legacy of 1812? It never happened again (PETER JONES, 8/07/12, The Globe and Mail) Rather than a stirring Canadian victory, it ended when the Americans largely lost interest. But the rea.....
