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...characters of the Middle East. "Summer was ending, and I had to take my daughter back to boarding school in Europe," says Baer, 53. "All the players in the Gulf spend August in the south of France, so I told Gaghan, 'Come along. We'll see some arms dealers, some people from Fatah intelligence, some oil traders.' I wasn't a consultant on the film. This was just a road trip. The terrorism-arms-dealer-oil-trader tour...
...sadly, is no. Competition would drive down prices and, eventually, increase supply, if only drugs were legalized and operated in the free market system. Some of my friends would have thicker wallets once the market equilibrium price replaces the distorted black market. If illicit drugs were legal, then no dealer would ever have problems enforcing their property rights. Instead of suffering theft, a disincentive to industry and commerce if their ever was one, drug salesmen for the first time will be able to call the cops at 2 a.m. “Officer? I need a squad car here right...
...Between empire.com, poker.com, and Mrsupergames.com, any 18-year-old can sign in and ante up, playing up to 60 hands an hour. At $10 a hand, 60 hands an hour, 10 hours a week… well, you’re getting the dealer, I mean deal...
...that museums don't brag about. Next month, the trial of former antiquities curator, Marion True, resumes in Italy on charges that she helped the museum buy 42 illegally looted Roman and Etruscan artifacts. True has denied the allegations, but last week she resigned after the revelation that a dealer involved in some of the purchases helped her get a loan for a vacation home in Greece. Critics of the museum say her case is a symptom of a culture of mismanagement and excess, in which the head of the museum's trust allegedly used the institution as a piggy...
...been reading and hearing about all sorts of reliability problems afflicting recent Mercedes models, from engine failure to unsightly brake dust. "All my life I wanted to have a Merc, and unfortunately, now that I can finally afford one, they're in the tank," she says. At a Mercedes dealer in Atlanta, the sales staff even joked about reliability, she says, noting that Mercedes still beats Kia cars in reliability tables. She gripes, "They should instead be saying, 'This is what we are doing to correct the problems...