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...struggling Europe is bad news for the rest of the world, since more than one-third of all foreign direct investment into countries such as China and Brazil comes from the 27-nation European Union. The E.U. with its 490 million population has also been an ever larger consumer of goods and services from Asia; last year it imported about $1 trillion worth from emerging markets alone, and China is its biggest supplier. With the U.S. economy also expected to drop off, it'll be up to Asia to generate its own growth for a while...
...Shakespeare or Corneille or even Beckett are deeper and more complex with an understanding of the rules of Greek drama that those playwrights emulated—or conspicuously shunned. In Dante or Dryden or Tennyson, one can sense the palpable presence of Vergil. To disembody literature from the larger tradition of which the authors were knowingly partaking would appear an artificial and arbitrary extraction.Most importantly, perhaps, we owe our understanding of philosophy to the Greeks who developed it and the Latins who preserved it for us somewhat intact. The metaphysics and natural science first discoursed upon in Plato?...
...That's just smart storytelling, courtesy of screenwriter Stanley Weiser, who worked with Stone on Wall Street, the 1987 "Greed is good" film that speaks more eloquently to our current morass than W. does. The larger tale the movie tells is of a slow-witted alcoholic, the wastrel son of a powerful family who found Jesus - and Karl Rove (Toby Jones) - and, with these two guiding him, a purpose and propulsion to his life...
...think there is this sense that people have right now that the larger entities treat people like numbers and pieces of paper. To blindly continue to go along with that and just act as if that's okay because I have an order telling me to do that - I think people realize that that's the wrong way to go. How do you respond to critics like the Illinois Bankers' Association, who say you're ignoring the law, that this is a publicity stunt...
Further administrative changes for the coming year included the establishment of larger discretionary budgets for the academic deans—a group that, in addition to the divisional deans, includes the Dean of the College, the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...