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...their domestic market is going to continue to grow. The European one won't. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in her second year already something of a Davos star, spoke of the end of a "Eurocentric" view of the world, but most leaders I talked to thought that European public opinion was still woefully ignorant of the ways in which the old Continent's influence may shrink in the coming years. That said, I wanted someone to challenge the conventional wisdom, and argue that low birthrates are compatible with long-term prosperity and happiness...
That was then. Of late, opinion on corruption has changed, as campaigners such as rock star Bono, joined by businesses and governments, have argued that corruption is a key cause of Africa 's underdevelopment and makes a mockery of international competition for contracts. In part, that is because business leaders in the old rich countries fear new competition. At a conference on business corruption in Paris last December, executives from France - no strangers to business-ethics scandals themselves - complained that they were losing out in Africa to Chinese firms that were less legally and morally encumbered...
Thorp, who at 74 no longer runs a hedge fund but still invests in a few, doesn't worry too much about a meltdown. "My opinion is that the most likely scenario is not a blowup but rather that hedge funds as a group will gradually and continuously lose their edge (if they haven't already) over other asset classes," he writes in an e-mail. "Then they will 'top out'--like mutual funds, real estate, etc.--and then just be a fluctuating fraction of total financial assets--part of the financial landscape...
When the California Supreme Court handed down a ruling in 2003 that codified the withdrawal of consent during sex, Justice Janice Rogers Brown, the lone dissenter, raised that very question. "The majority relies heavily on [the defendant's] failure to desist immediately," she wrote in her minority opinion. "But it does not tell us how soon would have been soon enough. Ten seconds? Thirty? A minute?" Mel Feit, executive director of the National Center for Men, a male-advocacy group based in Old Bethpage, N.Y., says biology is a factor. "At a certain point during arousal, we don't have...
...meant to argue, expose, or discuss a particular opinion in some depth. Op-eds do not explicitly respond to pieces that have already appeared in The Crimson, but often they tackle the same subjects that recent op-eds have dealt with. In considering which op-eds to publish, the editorial board favors pieces which are original or take points of view that have not been previously articulated on the editorial page. For example, if we have recently published a staff editorial on a particular topic, we are more inclined to publish an op-ed arguing the opposite point of view...