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VLADIMIR PUTIN gets tiger cub for his birthday, plans to teach it tiger-claw judo flip...
...Gray is an interesting man to make that point, because in the 1970s he was one of the intellectual godfathers of Thatcherism, the belief that free markets and red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalism were the essential underpinnings of successful modern societies. Granted, he has been moving away from such neoliberal fundamentalism for years. I remember a conversation with him precisely 10 years ago - after the collapse of Long Term Capital Management and Russia's default, the last time when it looked as if the market revolution were in peril - when he lamented that neoliberals had "underestimated the revolutionary nature...
...cheery worldview, but it was honest. He ate meat but realized, in his essay "Consider the Lobster," that if a crustacean is trying to claw its way out of a pot of boiling water, you are cold-blooded murderer when you eat it. In the 150th anniversary issue of The Atlantic last year, he nihilistically stated an unpopular truth about liberty: The cost of freedom is that you have to occasionally let 3,000 people die in terrorist attacks. His 1999 collection of short stories, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - which John Krasinski has adapted into a movie...
...such fears, then President Vladimir Putin sat down with about 30 CEOs of Western companies on the fringes of a World Economic Forum meeting in St. Petersburg in June 2007 and gave a concise rationale for why they shouldn't worry. The Kremlin, he told them, would continue to claw back control of some energy and other deals transacted in the 1990s under his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, that Putin viewed as highly disadvantageous to Russia. But, according to two CEOs who were present but who asked not to be identified, Putin assured them that everyone else was not only safe...
...Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, could start wrangling over Musharraf's freshly evacuated seat. Zardari has deflected suggestions that he's interested, but suspicions linger that he may wish to become the next head of state - if only as a ceremonial figure. The coalition has vowed to claw back the wide-ranging powers with which Musharraf endowed the presidency...