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Don't expect Delaware to do anything to tamper with this profitable business line. The state's division of corporate services recently boasted it spent just $12 million to earn $700 million - a quarter of the state's annual revenue. That enviable cost-revenue ratio has triggered copycat competitors. It...
This opening eases us into the slight sock hop feel of “Silver Soul,” which sounds precisely like the “medicine for heartache” that the lyrics promise. The back-up vocals harmonize furtively but effectively with Legrand’s voice...
Ho is hoping it won't come to that. He is not under any illusion that a successful antibody-based treatment will have the sweeping effect of the polio or measles or smallpox vaccines - essentially wiping out the diseases in treated populations. Instead, an ibalizumab-based therapy will be just...
"It may not be President Obama's fault that our multibillion-dollar homeland-security apparatus is more Keystone Kops than 24 ... The Federal Government is (alas) a vast, ungovernable enterprise. And the bigger it gets, the less effective it will become ... [Still,] the President is in thrall to the illusion...
Almost none of this is plausible, or even logically consistent. In old Mamet, themes and character revelations bubbled up naturally, almost imperceptibly, out of the rambling dialogue--that miasma of indirection, euphemism and profanity that has been dubbed Mametspeak. The new Mametspeak is more like Mametshout: thematic statements imposed from...