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Vietnam, then, was always at best a civil war, in which a large proportion of the nation the U.S. was ostensibly defending actually supported the other side. The conflict escalated to the point of drawing in U.S. troops directly in 1964 precisely because so many people in South Vietnam had...
At the same time, technologies for videoconferencing, Web conferencing and intranet sites have improved in quality and price and have spread around the world. They have made virtual management not only possible but preferable for many companies. Of 82 large multinational firms surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2000, 24% allowed home...
Yes, these images of a kind of animal holocaust have generated a lot of unease. And of course you have to confront the reality that all of these animals would have been slaughtered anyway, at some point, to get them to your dinner table. So it's certainly making people...
Nor should one conclude that all of Hanson's backers are racists. In fact, issues other than Asians and Aborigines have been more important to Hanson's supporters. Rural Australia has been a victim of globalization and market forces. Agricultural prices have been depressed by the absurdities of world farm...
Miyazawa was talking specifically about Japan's budget deficit, expected to reach $5.57 trillion at the end of March, nearly 130% of GDP, the highest proportion in the developed world. That's just the worst of many problems: stocks are trading at their lowest levels since the 1980s bubble economy...