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...been a problem with our alarm system, which has been fixed. It totally wasn't our fault," said...
...corner newsstand. The women's good-natured, rowdy jousting in the opening and closing round-table segments makes the show a distinctive treat. But in between is fairly typical daytime-talk fare. The celebrity interviews, which make Walters' pre-Oscars weepfests look cerebral, are generous to a fault. (And how. Vieira once gave Wesley Snipes a lap dance--"after he requested it!" she protests.) There are numerous fashion features--Jones has often shilled her line of wigs--and for every contrarian service piece on "swimsuits for real women" there's a runway show of boobulous Victoria's Secret models...
There is plenty about our present globalized economic system that should trouble not just aging radicals but ordinary people as well. A financial panic starting in distant money centers can cause you, through no fault of your own, to lose your job, as happened to millions of people during the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Modern capitalists can move their money in and out of different countries around the world at the speed of a mouse click. Democratic countries find that their options for political choice--whether in the realm of social policy, economic regulation or culture--are curtailed...
...middle of a conversation, or talking on the telephone, or listening to the radio or having a bad day. And if they don't get what they want, or they claim there's something wrong with whatever they got before, they start carrying on as if it were your fault or there were anything you could do about it even if you wanted...
...look at a different type of interconnection, there is plenty of evidence from the positive experience of East and Southeast Asia that the removal of social deprivation can be very influential in stimulating economic growth and sharing the fruits of growth more evenly. If India went wrong, the fault lay not only in the suppression of market opportunities but also in the lack of attention to social poverty (for example, in the form of widespread illiteracy). India has reaped as it has sown by cultivating higher education (its booming software industry is only one effect of that), but the country...