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...present decade, which we've never even agreed what to call - the 2000s? the aughts? - has acquired its permanent character as a historical pivot defined by the nightmares of 9/11 and the Panic of 2008-09. Those of us old enough to remember life before the 26-year-long spree began will probably spend the rest of our lives dealing with its consequences - in economics, foreign policy, culture, politics, the warp and woof of our daily lives. During the '80s and '90s, we were Wile E. Coyote racing heedlessly across the endless American landscape at maximum speed and then spent...
...reasonable question, and now it becomes even more pointed: Why should Chinese state-owned companies be permitted to go on a buying spree abroad, when a foreign company - indeed, perhaps the world's most famous foreign company - can't even buy a fruit-juice maker in China, one owned and run not by the government but by an old-fashioned entrepreneur who wanted to do the deal? Beijing's explanation aside, there's really no good answer to that question. In a world now beset with more than enough economic problems, including diminished international flows of both goods and money...
...Fehr sparked Harvard’s scoring spree, finding the net off a pass from Cohen at 8:41 in the third period. A couple of minutes later, Fehr assisted Burr, who put in his fourth goal of the game. Cohen then added his third and fourth tallies before Fehr closed out the period with another score...
...shooting spree • is gone on in Alabama at several locations by 28-year-old gunman • is gone on in Germany at former high school of by 17-year-old gunman...
...offensively titled website, the Westboro Baptist Church will be protesting Cambridge Rindge and Latin’s acceptance of homosexuality before moving on to the air force base and high school in Lexington, Mass., and capping off their packed day with a protest in Reading, Mass. The daylong protest spree is inspired by Reading Memorial High School’s staging of the Laramie Project, a play depicting the horrors of hate crimes against homosexuals. The Westboro Baptist Church is a Topeka, Kansas, based group that loosely uses religious principles to justify a universally offensive agenda of hate. To further...