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...believe we will look back on the financial innovations of the last several decades with regret? -Francis Murray, Washington They almost brought our country down. The only guy who really called this right was Karl Marx. Marx understood what would happen if you let the market run amok. Of course, it was done by right-wing Republicans. They brought our nation to its knees, and we're not going to end up being a great power because of what happened...
...comparative good news becomes a lot less good if you happen to live on either coast of the U.S. The complicated workings of planetary physics would cause seas to rise unevenly, and the Atlantic and Pacific shorelines of North America would be harder hit by an Antarctic thaw than perhaps any other place in the world...
Smith declined to offer any specifics about what would happen to staffers now working in the closing cafes, saying only that the administration has not yet reached the point at which they can make concrete decisions about future layoffs...
...It’s inevitable, from the looks of it, that a certain amount of that is going to happen,” Thomas said. “One just has to try and limit it so that it doesn’t lead to the deterioration of the [educational] mission...
...rights. The role of individuals is to stand up for our basic rights - any rights protected by the Chinese constitution, including the right to be informed, the right to supervise and other human rights." It's a sentiment that Ai himself echoes when he talks about what might happen in the coming years in China. "I have an illusion that maybe I'll quit all my art and other things and just build a huge office that can contain 5,000 people doing nothing but investigations," he says. "We'll have to clean out all the garbage to have...