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...feedback allowed to build to almost unbearable levels, while Cao and the others don masks, flail around and occasionally assault each other. "I just want our live shows to be weird and something extremely different," Cao says. They certainly are that. Even among the avant-garde, Torturing Nurse retain the power to shock...
...about his 45 years of experience there and says, "You just have to sit it out. It recovers." But he acknowledges that "it's a painful process, and we are only at the beginning." The impact won't be felt across the board. Barring a financial cataclysm, London will retain its position as Europe's preeminent financial center. Some wealth management may migrate to Singapore or Dubai, rapidly emerging regional centers, and some of the back-office jobs that are cut may never return. "As in any business, there will be more pressure to take more support roles...
...occupier will retain its bases.' MUQTADA AL-SADR, Shi'ite cleric, on why Iraq's parliament should reject a security pact with...
...interesting facts and a motto for all 51 states. For Virginia, I said the motto was "The Old Dominion," which was very arrogant of Virginians, as the true Old Dominion was an empire of mole-men who lived underground. The mole-men built Monticello, of course. Virginian gentlemen still retain some of the old fashioned Southern gentlemanly Molemanic habits, such as when they greet each other, they touch each other's faces as though they are blind. In the book I promised to write more about mole-men later. 700 mole-man names seemed like a good...
...only way to grow rich is to open your country - open your economy at home, open your companies to trade with the world, and open up your politics. But the new state capitalists challenge that wisdom. They encourage private enterprise and foreign investment. At the same time, they retain control of certain key industries, like oil or automaking, use state support to grow these industries, and then unleash state-backed firms into the global marketplace. Mostly authoritarian regimes, the state capitalists also keep a lid on politics by using growth to co-opt their middle classes...