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...death of the reconstruction official served notice that as the U.S. military begins to withdraw its 130,000 troops from Iraq, it is Hill's people--about 1,000 foreign-service officers and many more civilian contractors--who will step into the front line. And they will do so soon. An agreement with the Iraqi government requires all U.S. combat troops to leave Iraq's major cities and towns by the end of this month, and a national referendum planned for January will probably bring forward the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops to mid-2010. The U.S. military footprint...
Which is why the future of books won't be purely Amazonian. It's not an either/or future. It's both/and. It will have publishers and self-publishers and books and Kindles and probably other devices in it too. The rise of a new model doesn't require the death of the old one. In fairy-tale terms, Princess Alera won't have to choose between the politically expedient Steldor and the mysteriously alluring Narian. She can have them both and live happily ever after. Or if not happily, at least she'll have plenty to read...
More to the point, Fisher was the country's first great economist, a pioneer of the mathematical approach that came to dominate the discipline after his death. Fisher saw the behavior of the market in rational, mathematical terms. He wasn't completely doctrinaire about this--earlier in his career, he had allowed that investors sometimes behaved like sheep. But in the 1920s, convinced that skilled monetary management at the Federal Reserve and the rise of new, professionally run investment trusts had reduced the riskiness of markets, he lulled himself into believing that the prices prevailing on Wall Street were...
...have been so great. For the past two years, the Federal Reserve has been working right out of the Fisher playbook, and while the results haven't been perfect, they've been a lot better than those of the early 1930s. The economics that Fisher espoused--reborn after his death in 1947--should not be discarded. But clearly, there are some issues with...
...made more than 100 films and his share of tabloid headlines, but nothing in David Carradine's life was as sensational as the way he ended it. The 72-year-old actor's naked body was found June 4 in a Bangkok hotel room. Thai police said his death was caused by autoerotic asphyxiation...