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...consumer of natural resources. The demand from China for raw materials has already resulted in higher equilibrium prices for many commodities, from coal to copper to palm oil. And if all goes well in India, which has many economic similarities to China 20 years ago, its economy will clock real GDP growth of more than 7% a year for the next decade, driving further price gains for commodities...
...Lunch for Gromyko. Like many another working couple in their realm, Elizabeth and Philip begin their day by listening to the 8 o'clock BBC newscast. Half an hour later, they discuss it over a breakfast of tea, toast and kippers,'and soon they are lost in a cloud of newspapers. Elizabeth pores through three papers each morning, not overlooking the sports pages, and like most women, she shudders slightly when she sees her own picture. Newspictures have seldom done her justice...
Advise & Warn. At 5 o'clock, the Queen is back once more in the palace to play with her children for another hour and-on Tuesdays-to await the weekly visit from the Prime Minister. Churchill used to drop in on her father at 5:30, but Elizabeth makes him wait until an hour later to give her more time in the nursery...
...change the ending to V for Vendetta and blow up Harvard instead of Parliament. What could it mean? We’re not quite sure, but we have thought on this: after walking by it for four years, the University is finally putting down the fertilizer for us. The clock is ticking, and for better or for worse, we’ve reached the final 100 meters of the bell lap. Aside from the predictable thoughts of “I hate this place and everyone in it,” seniors will also be looking towards the future with...
Paglia’s comparisons of poems and visual art are particularly effective. The colors in “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock,” she writes, conjure the rich hues of a Gauguin painting, a comparison that reinforces the tension in the poem between the puritanical world in which Stevens lives and the lush creativity of his imagination...