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...truth is, the unelected leaders of the Middle East have been happy to learn from Dubai's successes and failures without having to take such risks themselves. In part, that's because Dubai is not more but less politically free than other places in the region. Sheik Mohammed al-Maktoum, the Emir of Dubai, is able to take daring risks not just because he is a hereditary ruler, but because he is unaccountable to the vast majority of Dubai residents, 95% of whom are foreign and who live in Dubai subject to his favor. Other places in the gulf have...
...there is another, even simpler warning for the U.S. economy as we face our own deficit issues. "It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked," investor Warren Buffett has said. The U.S. has none of the currency difficulties of the PIGS. We do have a government deficit expected to hit 10.6% of GDP this year and a total federal debt that will cross 100% of GDP in 2012, according to White House projections. The rolling crisis of the past three years has been an embarrassing exercise in exposing the financially underclothed...
...elements of Yale’s tongue-in-check but rather over-the-top admissions video, this latest piece imagines a senior who hasn’t given to the fund being accosted by a mix of professors, administrators, and friends who take on zombie-esque tendencies when they learn Dan, the senior, hasn’t donated...
...Advice for men who hope to pop the question but don't know how to go about it: “Learn the phrase ‘will you marry me’ in a really romantic language that she knows, and practice saying it over and over in a mirror. Now imagine how easy it will be in English...
...Let’s say that you have a general surgeon who wants to learn minimally invasive techniques, a scenario that is commonly funded by outside interests,” he says. “Is that a bad thing? When someone gets training that they wouldn’t normally get and helps patients...