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...pretense of artistry or ambiguity. Fighting is to Fight Club what its star Channing Tatum's one previous hit, the 2006 Step Up, was to every poor-boy-with-a-dream dance movie before it, from Saturday Night Fever to Save the Last Dance - which is to say, a worn retread, but with more bare-knuckle brawls. No matter: young guys' collective movie memory can be counted in the months; or maybe, like most everyone, they just like to see the same stories with different faces. Exceeding most analysts' expectations, Fighting pulled in $11.4 million...
Peter Reuter, a professor of criminology and public policy at the University of Maryland, like Kleiman, is skeptical. He conceded in a presentation at the Cato Institute that "it's fair to say that decriminalization in Portugal has met its central goal. Drug use did not rise." However, he notes that Portugal is a small country and that the cyclical nature of drug epidemics - which tends to occur no matter what policies are in place - may account for the declines in heroin use and deaths...
...February the alliance of European steel manufacturers, Eurofer, accused China of systematically distorting steel markets through subsidies. The result, say Europe's steelmakers, has been "irrational capacity extension." The European Commission has slapped duties on Chinese steel-pipe imports, and is now threatening World Trade Organization action as well...
...China's steelmakers employ some 2.5 million people, and Beijing is desperate to keep those jobs going. But U.S. and European rivals say China isn't playing fair and accuse Beijing of subsidizing steel companies, offering preferential tax rates, giving access to low-priced materials, and exempting steel firms from labor and environmental rules...
...European and U.S. steelmakers say those policies have artificially depressed steel prices and helped boost China's share of total E.U. steel imports from 2% in 2003 to 30% today and its share of U.S. imports from 4% in 2003 to 19% today. "The Chinese are in trouble and they must decide between allowing growth rates to fall - something that is politically very difficult - or annoying their trading partners by dumping their exports," says Paul Scott, managing consultant at London-based mining analysts CRU. "They are likely to choose the lesser of two evils, exporting their...