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...Season 5 judge] Toby Young going to be back again? I have no idea. A lot of people were like, "Oh, I can tell Tom hates Toby." I actually got along with him really well. To get some fresh blood is nice. He's actually quite charming and funny and witty, and I enjoyed having him around, so I don't know why people think that I hate...
...tigers really want to thrive in the future, the answer might lie in rejecting another legacy of Park Chung Hee: the idea that governments alone can successfully engineer high economic performance. Jim Walker, an economist at independent research firm Asianomics in Hong Kong, argues that politicians still intervene too much in their economies instead of allowing market forces to work. "What governments need to do is start trusting their own people rather than hoping the West is going to get it right all of the time," Walker says. For the tigers to keep roaring, they may need to find their...
Moral hazard n.-- The idea that people may take more risks when they know there's a safety net in place...
...none of them relate to specific people. The culture into which we have evolved includes no moral compass and is based on greed; instant gratification; selfish disregard for others, present and future; an expectation that the government will handle all our needs--you get the idea. We can all take blame. Joe Gordon, DALLAS...
Here's my idea for a dream exercise machine: I input my weight, the number of calories I want to burn and how much time I have. Then I power up the gleaming, multigeared thing--and it goes to work by itself while I return to my favorite chair, play online poker and eat maple-glazed doughnuts...