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...appearance at Davos as a head of government, "is in a kind of perpetual global conversation." It's the easiest thing imaginable to make fun of the sometimes self-important men and women with their self-important ways who trot to Switzerland each January. But the truth of the matter remains: despite all its challengers, you never hear more of that global conversation in one place, and one short spell of time, than you do in Davos...
...none of them. My favorite moment came when Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute began pacing behind the podium, pulling his chin as he realized that his "let the market decide" rhetoric wasn't going over very well against former CIA Director Jim Woolsey's argument that, as a matter of national security, the U.S. government should support hybrid technology and alternative fuels. Taylor actually proposed that the poverty and dissatisfaction such a policy might cause in places like Saudi Arabia might create more terrorists...
...matter how many time I read predictions of China's bright future, I still worry about my country of birth. My parents are both laid-off workers because of China's economic reforms, so I am not so optimistic. China is developing fast, but it has a long...
First, fire: Hedge-fund managers make epic sums of money (the top earner on Alpha magazine's most recent list, James Simons of Renaissance Technologies, took in an estimated $1.5 billion in 2005), which they aren't going to give up without a fight. "It really is a matter of life or death or fortune or no fortune, and the incentives to take huge risks are prodigious," says veteran money manager Jeremy Grantham...
...recent ruling by Maryland's Court of Special Appeals in a case that may soon make its way to the state's highest court and that has captured the attention of feminists and legal experts across the country. Advocates for victims' rights insist it's not just a matter of allowing a woman to have a change of heart. If the law doesn't recognize a woman's right to say no during sex, they say, there is no recourse for a woman who begins to feel pain or who learns her partner isn't wearing a condom...