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...Perhaps because they're looking beyond the next club opening or quarterly report, toward a national future that is anything but certain. Despite the country's economic recovery, Japan is still pinned beneath $6.9 trillion in public debt, and that's 1.5 times the nation's GDP, the worst ratio in the industrialized world. A widening gap between rich and poor is threatening to shatter Japan's view of itself as a predominantly middle-class country. The boom in the big cities has yet to be felt in the nation's heartland. China's rise is challenging Japan's economic...
...Alcott’s “Moods” seem to be spot-on. But Cheever only sprinkles in these academic observations and then ignores them to gush scandal, contrive imagined scenes, and give undue importance to an ever-shuffling deck of secondary characters. This ratio, if it were inverted, might have made for an entertaining, perceptive, and focused presentation of the facts. Sadly, “American Bloomsbury” centers so much on shock factor that it completely breezes over necessary information (like a mention of the Bloomsbury Group—the 20th century British intellectual bohemians...
...closing weeks here and perform his own rendition of a Lost In Translation-style romance. Scarlett has had close ties to co-stars Bill Murray and Woody Allen, so you know she likes older men. ScarJo Hook-Up odds: 25:1 (Just slightly higher than their age ratio...
Take the nation's largest life-insurance company, China Life, which trades in Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York City. On Jan. 31, its shares had a price-earnings ratio of around 70 (a stock's P/E ratio shows the amount investors are paying for each dollar of per-share earnings). That's a richer multiple than investors are shelling out for fast-growing Google...
...were depressed as hell as we were doing this work," admits Kenneth Pollack, a co-author of the report. "It was not a fun project." Nearly all past attempts by outsiders to suppress civil wars have failed. The ones that succeeded - Bosnia, for example - required a ratio of 20 armed peacekeepers per 1,000 locals. In Iraq that would mean an international security force of about 450,000 troops, and that's excluding Kurdistan, which hopefully would remain stable...