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...August, Keyes replaced Republican candidate Jack Ryan, who had been driven out of the race by a scandal over his divorce papers. Ryan graduated from Harvard’s joint J.D.-MBA program...
...need to be among the decision makers who set policy for the African Union. Her new approach to peace is one the African continent badly needs. David Mbai Mboe Neuchâtel, Switzerland Candid Comparisons While tens of thousands of Darfurians are being systematically raped, murdered, tortured, starved and driven from their homes [Oct. 4], the world community can only stand by, arguing about the correct technical term to use to describe the situation and appointing commissions to "investigate" this atrocity. The U.S. has illegally marched into Iraq, while defenseless human beings are being slaughtered in Sudan...
Barlett and Steele mentioned several times that a market-driven health-care system can never be efficient. But our health-care system is bureaucracy driven, because of the doctors and health-care companies that benefit from its overuse and inefficiency. Only when the person receiving care is the person responsible for payment will normal supply-and-demand forces come into play and costs be reduced. Insurance is not the answer. It is the problem...
...industry is gleaming today. Prices are running at 20-year highs, driven by strong demand from a booming China, which is expected to grab up to one-third of steel produced this year for infrastructure and other projects. Last year, estimated global crude steel consumption reached 976,000 metric tons, up 6% from the previous year and 15% from three years earlier. Last month, the $4.02 billion Anglo-Dutch steel producer Corus recorded its first half-yearly profits since its formation five years ago. "We're keeping our feet on the ground," said chief executive Philippe Varin. But "we expect...
...fall into another major trap of talking about “outsider” art: to credit the work with a mystical force and purity based solely on a fetishization of the biography of the artist. While I certainly do admire the intensity with which Castle must have been driven to make those drawings, I also think that they are some of the most beautiful and challenging works on paper I have seen in a long time. Castle’s sooty medium gives his drawings an eerie, cloudy atmosphere. The rendering of the subjects, often domestic interiors or landscapes...