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...always a depth that other polemicists did not have,” Ambinder added. Douthat’s freshman year roommate Jason T. Sauer ’02 said he was unsurprised by Douthat’s appointment based on his recollections of his former roommate’s record as a journalist in College. One piece profiling Douthat as a senior in Fifteen Minutes magazine cited him for writing over 3000 words of copy each week “I think that in a lot of ways, this new position is going to be a continuation of the role...
Overall economic growth is following suit. In the fourth quarter of 2008, Taiwan's GDP contracted 8.4% from the same period a year earlier, making it the worst quarter on record. South Korea's GDP shrank 3.4%, Singapore's fell 4.2%, and Hong Kong's dipped 2.5%. Eric Fishwick, head of economic research at the brokerage CLSA in Hong Kong, predicts the dismal numbers will persist. He expects GDP in Taiwan and Singapore to contract at double-digit rates this year. "We've never seen an external shock in Asia like this," says Fishwick...
That would be BHP Billiton, mate, an Xstrata rival. In fact, Geoff Clare, an executive director of Queensland's Environmental Protection Agency, had mining in mind because the industry had raked in record profits thanks to Australia's commodity boom. Some green sheen wouldn't hurt the industry...
...Sarkozy's conservative supporters counter that remaining soft on Internet piracy will lead French artists to rapid ruin. Within the past five years alone, French record companies have seen sales plunge by more than 50%, mostly because of illegal music downloading. Polls indicate that more than one-third of French people say they have downloaded and exchanged copyright-protected files at least once. Entertainment-industry organizations say about 450,000 illegal downloads take place in France each day. That has cost French musicians and studios about $10 million in royalties annually over the past five years. That loss of financial...
...Perhaps. But France isn't the only country considering such punitive action. In January, Irish ISP Eirecom struck a deal with record companies under which it would ban clients who were found to be illegally downloading music. The U.K. is also contemplating forcing ISPs to disconnect customers tied to online piracy as part of its push to make broadband access universal by 2012. In Brussels, meanwhile, debate rages over the future of network neutrality - the degree of free and equal access to the Internet. Governments and business interests want the ability to increasingly filter its use. (See the 50 best...