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...interview with U.S. Director�of National Intelligence John Negroponte [April 24], TIME should have asked whether he realizes that another Pearl Harbor is around the corner. It will be not a military attack but a political and economic blow that will cripple the U.S. Tehran and Moscow share a common interest: to drastically reduce the political power of the U.S. in the Middle East. Once Iran has the Bomb, Tehran and Moscow will practically control the world oil supply and could blackmail the U.S. and Europe. In the past few months, Tehran has bluntly positioned itself as the pre-eminent...
...courtroom, and much of its dialogue consists of courtroom questioning and arguments by lawyers on both sides. Andreadis adds that members of the cast playing jurors will be sitting among the audience, and attorneys will address their speeches to them. “It’s trying to blow that barrier between cast and audience,” she says. —Marianne F. Kaletzky
...courtroom, and much of its dialogue consists of courtroom questioning and arguments by lawyers on both sides. Andreadis adds that members of the cast playing jurors will be sitting among the audience, and attorneys will address their speeches to them. “It’s trying to blow that barrier between cast and audience,” she says...
Every time an announcer or commentator spouts off on your TV or in your newspaper about a player’s “intangibles,” or calls attention to his grit, scrappiness, or heart as attributes that somehow act to will his team to victory, a blow is struck against the diffusion of quantifiable knowledge that is raising the game to the level of efficiency its fans deserve. It was such a blow that knocked Paul DePodesta ‘95, one of the protagonists in Michael Lewis’s 2003 book “Moneyball...
While a increased gas tax would not be popular with many voters or business lobbies, tepid measures to artificially and temporarily soften the blow of high gasoline prices, such as the Senate Republican plan to mail $100 checks to voters or the Democratic plan for a 60-day suspension of the federal gas tax, are short-sighted quick fixes. It is no wonder that incensed constituents across the political spectrum have called their congressmen to protest their pandering antics—they realize that the gasoline problem will extend far longer than the few months until midterm elections. Instead...