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...There are courses and fields where grades are more generous,” he said...
...though, Argentina is worth watching because it is a classic case of what economists call "the curse of resources." A century ago, thanks to beef, Argentina was a rich nation and granted itself the sort of social-welfare system that rich nations can afford. But like other places with generous endowments of natural resources--think of the oil-rich states of the Middle East--it has never been able to wean itself from a dependence on them; Argentina's main exports today are pretty much the same agricultural commodities they were 100 years ago. In the 1990s, sustained...
...garden from which Americans were expelled, years ago, by their success and power and diversity--and by their bitter internal wars over, among others, Joe McCarthy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ho Chi Minh. The films archive the country's grainy common-man myth of itself, more generous and neighborly and decent, and a lot whiter (in a Norman Rockwell way) than America has proved to be, decades later, having made all that money and opened its doors to the world...
...evidence to date, the Bush Administration would seem to have admirably rebuffed pleas for favors from its most generous business supporter. But it didn't tell that story very effectively-encouraging speculation that it has something to hide. Democrats in Congress, frustrated by Bush's soaring popularity and their own inability to move pet legislation through Congress, smelled a chance to link Bush and his party to the richest tale of greed, self-dealing and political access since junk-bond king Michael Milken was jailed in 1991. That's just what the President, hoping to convert momentum from...
...message, and it’s a good one. Orange County aims much higher than the vast majority of typical teen fare, and it actually succeeds in hitting the mark. For that, I’ll give it an A for effort, and an A+ for originality. A bit generous? Maybe. But I’ve always been a fan of grade inflation...