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...modern form really got rolling only in the early 18th century. This wasn't an accident, and it didn't happen because a bunch of writers like Defoe and Richardson and Fielding suddenly decided we should be reading long books about imaginary people. It happened as a result of an unprecedented configuration of financial and technological circumstances. New industrial printing techniques meant you could print lots of books cheaply; a modern capitalist marketplace had evolved in which you could sell them; and for the first time there was a large, increasingly literate, relatively well-off urban middle class...
...even if he increases the number of troops and repairs the tanks, the top military brass will still be far more reluctant to use them. So will the public, which wants out of Iraq and isn't that gung ho about an indefinite stay in Afghanistan either. As a result, America's ability to threaten new military action--against Iran, for instance, or in Darfur--has dramatically declined. Our hard power isn't what it used to be--and won't be again anytime soon...
...walking around their capital, celebrating their President, marking their victory. But it did not feel like a victory of party or partisanship so much as a celebration of the simplest and yet most transcendent act of citizenship--going into a voting both and pulling a lever and honoring the result...
...experts who have reviewed a report written for the Senate Finance Committee on Geithner's missing taxes say at least $4,334 of the back taxes he owed the government was the result of basic errors and possibly some liberal interpretations of the tax code by Geithner, who prepared his taxes during several of the years in question, or by his accountant. Among Geithner's missteps: he claimed that payments made for summer camp for his children were tax deductible because they qualified as dependent-care. But the dependent-care credit is aimed at helping middle-class working parents afford...
...Tourism operators report that they have yet to see any cancellations as a result of the outbreak but admit that the problem needs to be dealt with quickly if they are to avoid losses. "It's another problem we didn't need," says Jack Daniels of Bali Discovery Tours. "But the government has been very aggressive in tackling it." In the meantime, visitors have been warned not to touch any animals that look as though they may be sick, including monkeys, which also carry the disease. "There is no need to be scared, but we are asking people to keep...