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Ponnuru suggests that dejected republicans can revitalize their party by paying attention to the middle class, addressing global warming, making health care affordable and promoting assimilation rather than xenophobia. He proposes, in other words, that Republicans become Democrats or at least move to the center, with an eye toward the 2012 elections. I think the GOP should shoot for 2020. It will take at least that long, probably longer, for Americans to forget the miserable incompetence of the past eight years. Tom Davis, SEATTLE...
...eye for an eye, a life for an ant scheme. That’s the principle that Chinese administrators put in practice last week when they executed Wang Zhendong for fraud. Zhendong had duped investors out of over 400 million dollars with a bogus plan to breed ants with aphrodisiac effects. China thus established a clear policy of (very) tough justice for white-collar criminals who operate on a large scale...
...what, I presume, must be his first class of the day. It’s hard to tell just what’s going on in my neighbor’s abode. The six to eight page paper-thin fire door separating our two rooms bars my curious eye and masks his more subtle sounds. But based on what I’ve heard, Piper’s definitely a brooding wannabe of a hipster intellectual. When other voices are present in his room, all I hear through the door is vinyl jazz and Débussy. But when...
...Willem Buiter, a political-economy professor at the London School of Economics, says that although the infusion of capital and soft loans in the financial sector "violates the letter and spirit" of standing E.U. laws on competition, European officials are turning a collective blind eye because of the credit crisis. Still, Buiter counsels Europe against matching any eventual bailout of the Big Three with aid to its own automakers. "If the Americans want to extend the life of the dinosaurs at public expense, they are free to do that," he says. "But if I see someone else jump...
...leaving any artistic, aesthetic or financial missteps well off the page. Still, what it does, it does well: if you're buying it as a coffee table book, you'd better make sure you've got an Isamu Noguchi coffee table to go underneath it. *A Bathing Ape is eye candy for graphic design students - a slickly produced, bling-laden look at a brand that's managed to forge a nexus between hip-hop style, Japanese animation and Warhol-inspired pop art while keeping the kids coming back for more...