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...example, every time you have a conversation with a friend, you are exchanging conversational "services" for an important but immeasurable kind of mutual benefit. You expend some time and effort because you place more value on the joys of friendship than you place on the resultant time and energy lost. Similarly, in each and every case, those who exchange goods and services value the things they are receiving more than they value the things they are giving up. As a result, all parties are enriched as different kinds of property flow from those who value them less to those...
...grand house outside Gstaad, he insisted on styling himself the "Comte de Rola"--a genealogical fiction. His father Erich Klossowski was both a painter and an art historian; his mother Elizabeth Spiro was a painter who liked to be known as Baladine and had a long, intense friendship with one of Germany's greatest modern poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, who became young Balthus' mentor. Thus from childhood Balthasar Klossowski, to give his actual name, was steeped in an artistic milieu, and he grew up with a considerable sense of himself as a prodigy. But young Balthus never enrolled...
...United States can best bow to pressure from the Arab world." Equally bad, he "gave the Israelis a slap in the face" by telling them they should pay the $54 million in taxes owed to the Palestinian Authority. It concluded, "If Mr. Powell was trying to renew a friendship with an old ally through these actions, Israel wasn't impressed. Neither were the Arab countries who saw him speak out of both sides of his mouth. The Bush administration needs to come up with a consistent policy on the Middle East before the laughter from the Persian Gulf becomes deafening...
...still goes to Elisabeth, who has the sparkle to go with the smile. She has yet to utter an unkind word amid a crowd that's elevating backstabbing to a gladiator-level public spectacle, and, well, is just so darn little and cute. And her and Rodger's fast friendship, lacking any semblance of strategic gain, still makes the female viewers go awwwww. (If the women watching like a thin, pretty girl, you know she's appealing. Maybe she and Rodger will go all the way, with Elisabeth winning and the pair splitting the dough up afterward...
...People will be able to look to the BSA as a resource for career opportunities as well as camaraderie and friendship," she says...