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...string together, and Paglen has a slight tendency towards stunts - holing up in a Las Vegas hotel in an attempt to track workers flying to and from a secret military installation, for example -and digressions, writing of the exploratory history of inner Nevada, or delving deep into the minutiae of amateur satellite hunting. That's not to suggest that those discussions aren't good reading, for they are - Paglen somehow manages to make the movements of a spy satellite riveting - but rather to say that many of his parts are more intriguing than a somewhat diffuse whole...
Panasonic will lose $4.2 billion for its fiscal which ends in March. The company says its troubles will cause it to fire 15,000 people. This is the latest in a string of lay-offs by big Japanese companies including Sony...
...School Professor Jody Freeman will leave Harvard to serve as a top environmental policy aide at the White House, the latest in a string of high-profile departures from the school’s faculty...
...esoteric edict is one in a string of attempts by some religious groups and parties in Indonesia to influence morality in the country - efforts that not everyone in the Muslim-majority nation appreciates. The council, which is not an official government body although it receives funding from the Ministry of Religion, has lately come under attack by moderate religious groups for a series of controversial edicts that critics say embolden radical elements in the nation. Though some of the group's religious calls have been praised - it recently issued a fatwa against smoking by minors and pregnant women - others have...
...front pages of most newspapers, and in our personal ruminations. We want to understand what kind of environment would allow his decades long financial fraud to thrive. We want to understand why sophisticated investors chose to believe that any money manager could have a multi-year string of returns which is a near statistical impossibility. (See pictures of Bernard Madoff's demise...