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...Asia, then Eastern Europe, now India and China. The U.S. share of the world economy is now only about 22%, and wages elsewhere are closer to those of Americans. Why anyone should think this process is a source of net human unhappiness beats me, but then--may as well admit it--I'm a Davos...
...reason that women don’t get to the top when he leads an institution that is 50 percent women students—that’s profoundly disturbing to me,” Hopkins said in an interview Monday. “He shouldn’t admit women to Harvard if he’s going to announce when they come that, hey, we don’t feel that you can make...
...long-suppressed Shi'ite Muslims--who make up 60% of the population--are the majority. As distasteful as the prospect of Shi'ite dominance may be to some Sunnis, many would would prefer democracy to Saddam's tyranny. But with less than two weeks before the vote, U.S. officials admit that the insurgents have succeeded in discouraging Sunni participation by assassinating election workers, gunning down politicians and threatening with death anyone who shows up to vote...
...Iraq and allegations that the government "sexed up" intelligence on WMD. In a speech seen by many as an outline of his leadership agenda, Brown urges the Labour Party to return to its core values. Nov. 2003 At a private dinner, Blair is said to admit that he has lost voters' trust and to tell Brown that he will stand down before the next election. March 2004 Blair allegedly tells Brown that he will stand down in the fall. May 2004 Less than a week after Brown and Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott are said to discuss the succession...
Maybe the twixters are in denial about growing up, but the rest of society is equally in denial about the twixters. Nobody wants to admit they're here to stay, but that's where all the evidence points. Tom Smith, director of the General Social Survey, a large sociological data-gathering project run by the National Opinion Research Center, found that most people believe that the transition to adulthood should be completed by the age of 26, on average, and he thinks that number is only going up. "In another 10 or 20 years, we're not going...