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...chapter on the unofficial economy in 1997 is followed by a chapter on legal reform in 1996, which is followed by a chapter comparing federalism in China and Russia in 2001. Each chapter does well on its own, but Shleifer does not convince the reader that one has to slog through all of them to fully appreciate his overarching conclusion...
After all, the 2004-05 installment of Harvard women’s hoops—an outfit that boasts five of the previous nine Ivy titles—was, at this point, supposed to be mired in a rebuilding slog...
...Best Picture. In fact, if Academy members have even a pair of cojones among them, they?ll nominate both ?Fahrenheit? ?The Passion? for Best Picture of 2004. Think of it: the outraged Left vs. the religious Right doing battle in Beverly Hills, as did all year in the long slog up to Election...
...Then came four years of hard slog. In charge of steering the project, Paul Rivalland had to convince government and health officials that dialysis at Kintore was possible. The then Federal Health Minister, Michael Wooldridge, was skeptical. "It's something that no one in the world has been able to make work in the desert," he said. Undeterred, Rivalland had his "kidney committee" visit the Royal Perth Hospital's remote dialysis center in Broome, which helps around 50 Aboriginal patients in the bush. "You can do it anywhere," he insists. "Osama bin Laden is on renal dialysis. If he could...
...there a healthy alternative for women who don't want to slog around all day in sneakers or orthopedic clodhoppers? Nowadays the answer is a resounding yes. Over the past three years, nearly every major shoemaker has begun designing with one eye on fashion and the other keenly fixed on comfort and health. DKNY and Amalfi of Italy have crafted dress shoes with new technology like Insolia, a system invented by a podiatrist that shifts weight from the front of the shoe back to the heel, making high heels feel more like flats. At the same time, old standbys...