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...neighbors (Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore), is based not on American-style laissez-faire economics but on interventionist policies designed to benefit producers and the state rather than consumers. Further, Fallows argues, those internal economic policies are dangerous to other nations because Japan has rewritten the Clausewitz maxim that war is the continuation of politics by other means. Now it is commerce by which a country's political objectives will be attained, and Japan's aim is economic domination...
Winning had better not be everything, for as the old baseball maxim has it, losing hurts more than winning feels good. Losing is mostly what sport is about. There are dozens of players on nearly every team, from the Peewee League to the pros, and dozens of teams in every sport. How many of us make those teams, or become star players, or get to play for a championship, or cinch the game with a last-second score? Hoop Dreams notes that of the 50,000 or so gifted kids playing high school basketball each year, 14,000 play...
...there any justification for Goldstein's action in all of Jewish tradition. Judaism stresses the sanctity of life; as a Talmudic maxim states, "He who always destroy a life, it as if he has destroyed a world...
...same maxim holds true for the reporter. On the news page, the reporter becomes the mediator between the situation and the public. It is not the reporter's job to prejudge the case and present it to his audience in a neat moral package...
...protecting the motherland from the Kremlin ramparts, towering over generals or members of the Politburo who in biological life were considerably taller than he. There he is conducting the defense of Stalingrad (though in fact he prudently avoided going anywhere near a battle), encouraging collective farmers and listening to Maxim Gorky read...