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While searching for a cheaper textbook last semester, Danny F. Yagan ’06 discovered that textbooks overseas were cheap enough not only to save money, but to make some...
...changes to the status quo in all sorts of situations. Republicans now want to remove large numbers of troops from Germany and South Korea, democratize the Middle East, follow the “Bush doctrine” of preemption, and amend the constitution to ban gay-marriage. While not textbook “liberal” positions, these policies are nonetheless very serious changes to the status quo. “Liberal” can have all sorts of different meanings, but in modern American parlance it has come to denote someone who is left wing—someone...
Wyborowa Single Estate's birth, several years in the making, is a textbook example of how to launch a "superpremium" vodka. Beginning in the mid-'90s with Belvedere and Grey Goose, superpremiums have transformed vodka's image from a flavorless mixer into an "affordable luxury" that costs only $15 a cocktail...
Bush is the first to say "I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player." While he reads history like a user's manual--he has finished Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton and is now on to one about Charles Lindbergh--Bush typically seems less curious about people's arguments than their motives for making them. That has its drawbacks. When the French warned about the potential hazards of occupying an Arab country--lessons learned from their colonial history--Bush's focus on their motives for avoiding war left little room for consideration of their arguments...
...Emulation of the infidels leads to loving them, glorifying them and raising their status in the eyes of the Muslim, and that is forbidden." SAUDI ARABIAN TEXTBOOK, urging teenagers not to befriend Christians or Jews. The book is part of a revamped curriculum supposedly designed to be less anti-Western...