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...reporting, but purveying information regularly takes a back seat to keeping readers entertained at any cost. Important stories can be glossed over with minimal detail while much attention is paid to John Kerry’s supposedly fake tan. This lopsided rendering of world events contributes to the information gap on critical issues that plagues our country...
Even as presidents’ salaries rise, experts said they see a widening salary gap between academic administrators and their corporate counterparts...
...with any leader’s contributions, easily quantified statistics never quite tell the whole story. There’s no convenient measure of how often a defender is perfectly positioned to seal off a gap forming at the line of scrimmage, thereby allowing a teammate to record a tackle. Nor can an opponent’s unwillingness to test a particular defender’s resolve be neatly distilled into a simple number for ready comparison...
Bush was ahead in Ohio by 130,000 votes. But about the same number of provisional ballots--given to voters whose eligibility had been challenged--remained unopened. In elections gone by, that gap would still have been enough to put the state in Bush's column, but most networks exercised uncharacteristic caution...
...first key marker on that route would be kick-starting Europe's economic growth, says Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform in London. He argues that narrowing Europe's persistent growth gap with the U.S. would provide the pride and the resources to increase Europe's influence. "You have to revive the sense of economic dynamism," he says. "Ultimately, both soft and hard power depend on it." While Europeans remain stingy about increasing defense outlays, European troops have become more readily deployable in trouble spots. If E.U. countries manage to ratify the European constitution over the next...