Word: friedman
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...irony of criticizing a book for its journalistic style in a newspaper column does not escape me. I only wish Reichl had studied how other journalists have successfully made the leap from 500 words to 50,000. Frank Rich (“Ghost Light”) and Thomas L. Friedman (“From Beirut to Jerusalem”), who are current columnists for the Times, immediately come to mind...
...easily find their way to Sydney, Hong Kong and London) and keep the "action at home." One advantage that New Zealand has over Australia is that it can move very quickly; its size and government structures allow rapid deployment. If the world is not as flat as Thomas Friedman has envisioned, then resources will continue to flow to the engines of world capitalism. Take note, ye Australians with your fat tax cuts, new cars and McMansions?and heed the warning of the little Kiwi bird...
...book everyone was talking about last week at the first World Economic Forum (WEF) ever held in Tokyo was not Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat, or some other tome on globalization. It was a slim Japanese volume called The Dignity of a State. Written by mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara, the book is ostensibly a nostalgic call to return to ancient Japanese virtues. But it's also a shrill rant that blames free markets for a wide assortment of Japan's?and the world's?woes. "Globalism," Fujiwara writes, "is merely a strategy of the U.S. that seeks world domination...
...what's the word to describe someone whose job is outsourced to Romania via India? Wipro's Lilian Jessie Paul likes globombed. Sudip Banerjee, president of enterprise solutions at Wipro, prefers flattened, with a nod to Thomas Friedman, author of the globalization bible The World Is Flat. Says Banerjee: "The jobs will go to those who can do them best, in the most cost-effective manner. Geography is irrelevant." That's something Indians are starting to learn...
...tale of antiright bias: half a dozen kids at different schools in California and New York told me their professors had derided President Bush in class. Others complained about the proliferation of programs in women's studies, African-American studies--even labor studies--while conservative scholars such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek (both Nobel laureates) are rarely assigned...