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Forgive him for appearing distracted. Bielsa, 46, was searching for the answer to a conundrum that would make even a brave man bury his head in the sand. In the next five days, he would have to leave one of two outstanding strikers?Gabriel Batistuta or Hernan Crespo?on the...
The Phoenix memo's main proposal--a nationwide sweep of flight schools in search of al-Qaeda terrorists--now appears to be solid and rational. But if I had been a unit chief at FBI headquarters reading it last summer, my first thought would have been that such a sweep...
Of course, she has her critics. Mark Leonard, co-author of the pamphlet Modernising the Monarchy, argues that "there is a perfectly rational case for simple abolition." Indeed. The Queen's formal powers, which include picking the Prime Minister and dissolving Parliament, are flagrantly undemocratic. Some 68% of Britons think...
But here's the problem with that scenario: it's too conventional and too rational. We got comfortable, over the years, with the old-fashioned balance of terror. It was an irrational game, but it was being played (we dearly hoped) by rational human beings. The whole black joke about...
So, yes, Britain's credit-rich homeowners have been economically rational - it's easy to be rational when things are mostly going your way. What's less clear is that they'll be able to play it so cool should trends reverse. There are tens of thousands of high-street...