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...with fewer aggrieved Baathists, and also because the British have sought to win over the local population through good works and a light touch. The American military has not found this manly enough. After underestimating the problems caused by a collapsing state and spreading lawlessness, the Americans overestimated the extent to which a tough approach would cow Iraqis. Even before Abu Ghraib, the battle for hearts and minds had probably been lost. All this has severely weakened Blair. Some would say it is already too late for him to step away from Bush. But he still believes that the position...
...words did little to settle debate over the extent of China's overheating or the prospects for a soft landing. The latter is "possible but difficult," says Morgan Stanley's chief economist for Asia, Andy Xie. Because of the country's underdeveloped capital markets, "China doesn't have the instruments to fine-tune the economy," he says. And what does Greenspan think? Chinese authorities "are wholly aware of a rate of growth in a number of industries which are not sustainable," he said last week. With unruly markets hanging on their every word, both Greenspan and Wen are being careful...
Thomason said they had to give some thought to using history as a backbone for a fictional story. “Basically, you have to make decisions about what you feel comfortable fictionalizing and to what extent you feel indebted to the truth,” he said. “Especially in a book like this where we were bending history to create really captivating story, and the question you have to constantly have to ask yourself is if you are bending history...
...parents probably want their money back—I hope they have a receipt lying around somewhere. Being at Harvard prepared me for my job to the extent that learning how to write is learning how to think, and cops do have to think sometimes, you know. Coming to Harvard I felt a little bit like a fish out of the water, because Harvard is nothing like the working-class, middle-class Irish-Catholic high school I went to. Overall my college experience hasn’t helped me much in my current job, although I had great teachers...
...certain extent, anyway...