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...traders and protectionists in the recent past, but they appear to be coming together now-and moving to the left. Bill Clinton was a free trader in the 1990s; Hillary Clinton opposed the Dubai Ports deal and voted against the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Act in the 2000s. "I think we've pushed too far in the direction of unfettered markets," says Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel-prizewinning economist who chaired Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. "Markets aren't perfect. They don't deal with security issues, for example. And though President Clinton tried to emphasize...
...largest. In the mid-1990s, Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper went to the shores of the lake, in Tanzania, to film how the species, now one of the country’s main exports, had obliterated all others in the lake and even became cannibalistic. In the mid-2000s, the film “Darwin’s Nightmare” opened at the Venice Film Festival, shocked audiences worldwide, and has since been nominated as Best Documentary at the Academy Awards...
...sure-as-heck won’t be watching that CGI-ed “Care Bears” movie. Yet the exploitation of nostalgia will continue to kill me inside. Those moments our generation waited so long to relive were falsely returned, and unnecessarily so. Children of the 2000s will only beg for vamped up dolls if we tell them that’s what they should want, there’s no reason we can indulge these toys in their true form.In my explorations, I was initially shocked to look at the recent Rainbow Brite doll with...
...There was a lot of pretty tasteless stuff that went on then. There’s a lot of pretty tasteless stuff that goes on in the early 2000s,” Bethell said. “I’m afraid it’s not a great tribute to the younger generation of those years. Some of them were taken by Hitler, which they shouldn’t have been.”While Harvard hosted Putzi for the week, his attempt to leave a longer-lasting legacy was blocked. Months after the reunion, Conant rejected...
...treated almost 39,000 inpatients, a two percent increase over 2003, returning to the level of patients seen before the decline of the late 1990s and early 2000s,” Levy said. “Importantly, though, we had seven percent more surgical discharges than the previous year...