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...like, you know, "It's not a question of if we're going to do it, but how we're going to do it." And that's the feeling they are getting but I can't tell you that I go to a meeting when I can say, well, boom, here's the moment that this is going to happen...
...first noticed reggaeton’s infectious “BOOM-ch-boom-ch” beat in the summer of 2005, while walking through New York City during the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Crossing through the huge crowds with my roommate, I wondered why all the tricked-out trucks and lowriders were blasting the exact same song from their subwoofers. It wasn’t until I listened past the thumping bass and clockwork rhythm that I realized that I was hearing a whole genre of music; almost all reggaeton songs feature an identical drum rhythm, called...
...summer, he could be in pole position for the next major international post to come free. In 2004 he turned down calls to become President of the European Commission. He argued then, and reiterates now, that he's still got work to do at home, nurturing the boom that during two terms of the coalition led by his Fianna Fáil party has seen soaring economic growth, a doubling of national income and a plunge in the unemployment rate from 10% to 4.2%. "How do you do it, Bertie?" asked a jealous and frankly incredulous Tony Blair last October...
...China's economic growth has surged to astonishing levels in recent years, a matching wave of books chronicling its rise has poured from the presses of publishers in Europe and the U.S. Many of these tend to be rather breathless accounts of how China's boom is affecting its own people and the rest of the world-tales of human struggle and environmental destruction within the Middle Kingdom, or, elsewhere, of entire steel factories being crated up and shipped to the mainland along with tens of thousands of jobs. But a second broad classification of China books is now emerging...
...preconceived ideas, and makes clear in his acknowledgments that he took on this project at the urging of his agent, despite knowing very little about China. I'm inclined to agree with Mann on the likelihood of democracy evolving in China anytime soon: as long as the economic boom continues to raise living standards, many Chinese will be inclined to leave the current system-authoritarian as it may be-alone. There is a place in the world, of course, for inductive reasoning like Hutton's, and for fresh ideas presented by nonspecialists. But in this case I'll have...