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...himself has embraced. A more apt British comparison, however, might be with Tony Blair. Like Sarkozy, the youthful Blair also challenged party and political sacred cows in his first months, and he was similarly accused of accumulating too much personal power, ignoring Parliament, manipulating the media, cozying up to dubious tycoons, and aligning his country's foreign policy too closely with that of the United States. But Blair also won three consecutive elections, destroyed his political opposition, modernized the British economy, passed major domestic reforms and helped Britain punch above its weight on the international stage. By the end, Blair...
...anything be done to halt such excess? Keynes proposed taxing financial transactions to discourage speculation, an idea that remains popular in antiglobalization circles but has never gained traction with U.S. lawmakers. Shleifer favors protecting consumers from some financial-market excesses--via mortgage lending regulations, for example--but is dubious of attempts to rein in markets themselves. Bogle has argued that professional investment managers wouldn't run off the rails so often if they were forced--by custom and by law--to place more emphasis on moral and fiduciary duty. The unavoidable reality, though, is that the pros simply...
...former Massachusetts Governor has maintained a lead ahead of his Republican opponents in the Iowa polls since mid-May. For most of the past year, Romney has targeted his resources in Iowa in an effort to transform himself from a little-known Governor of a liberal northeastern state with dubious conservative credentials into a candidate who can appeal to the social conservatives who dominate the G.O.P. electorate in Iowa...
...study published today in the journal Cell Stem Cell, a team of Harvard researchers reveals that the dubious stem cells created by Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang were indeed historic, just not for the reason that he originally claimed...
...Given the 58-year-old Strauss-Kahn's economic track record and his reputation as the French left's leading market-friendly reformist, there are few on either side of the nation's political divide challenging his nomination. Though dubious of Sarkozy's motives behind the nomination, even the Socialist Party has acknowledged that DSK (as Strauss-Kahn is known) is the consensus candidate of "France and European nations," and as such the party had "no opposition of substance or principle...