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...country is no longer growing rapidly is that any expansion in innovation or increased industrial activity will happen somewhere else. That place or those places have already been identified as India, China, and the other vibrant economies of southern Asia and Latin America. The case in their favor is simple. They have cheap labor. But, cheap labor is itself exhaustible. China has created a middle class, and so has India. The people in those middle classes will expect to be paid better and better over the years ahead. (See pictures of China going to Africa...
...pressured to publish a stand-alone edition? It’s not for us to infer, and it doesn’t seem likely, but for all its timidity, “Nobody Move” is best read as any other story. Sympathy falls typically, but genuinely, in favor of Luntz, especially when, in the face of almost certain castration, he tells a story about accepting a lottery ticket over a sizable amount of money as payment for childhood chores. Gambol, the debt-collector, for all his aloofness and savagery (he intends to eat the testicles in question), isn?...
...Undergraduate Council voted in favor of starting a 16-month capital campaign to fund a student community center on Sunday evening...
...most contentious votes of the semester, the Undergraduate Council voted 15-13 in favor of initiating a capital fundraising campaign to purchase the multi-million dollar 45 Mount Auburn St. property...
...attorney general for two years before moving on to the state's highest court, where he would leave behind a record in which liberals and conservatives could both find encouraging signs. He was a strong supporter of environmental and consumer protections. But in criminal cases he tended to favor the prosecution. And in a 1986 dissent he adopted the "strict constructionist" argument that a court's job was to determine how constitutional language was understood by the framers who proposed it. When it came time for Souter's name to go before the U.S. Senate, the first part of Bush...