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...final line of Kinsley's essay was telling. He implied that unless we spread the wealth around, we'll turn into a Colombia or Mexico, where people "live behind locked gates and hire guards to protect their family from kidnapping." Is Kinsley suggesting that to ensure their own safety the better-off should, via the government, pay protection money to the less well off? This would be playing with public money a similar game to the one rich people in banana republics play with their personal money. Mark A. Mendlovitz, Los Angeles...
...investors, then, picking out the winners is even harder than usual. Unless, that is, you're making bets on stock groups. Subramanian's research also reveals that while stocks are moving with their industry groups, industry groups are diverging from one another. Data that indicate an increase in inflation, for example, may shock an entire industry, but if that industry is food, stocks go down, and if it's energy, they go up. Merrill Lynch's quantitative strategy group runs paper portfolios based on different stock-picking methodologies, and the industry-selection model has trounced all the others over...
...Indian "consulates" based in sensitive border areas as if it were fact (there are only three). "Who is the beneficiary of this war on terror that requires the collaboration of Pakistan?" a retired major in the Pakistani army once asked me. "India is again in Afghanistan, working against us. Unless you demonstrate what good for Pakistan will come out of this collaboration, you will not get any more than grudging support." That was made clear this summer, when evidence emerged that senior members of the ISI were involved in an attack on Kabul's Indian embassy that killed...
...Poundstone contends that its flaws outweigh its benefits. Time and time again, he highlights the ease with which political consultants and strategists manipulate voters, a task that is all too easy because they understand the inherent faults of our system.Yet Poundstone knows that his call to action is meaningless unless he can provide a viable alternative. He begins by examining the history of voting theory, finding a rich tradition of discussion on the subject extending back to ancient times. Indeed, the narrative of voting philosophy flows through the French Revolution, finds an unlikely mouthpiece in author Lewis Carroll, and continues...
...creative is very important,” Riverton says, “but the truth is, a lot of states can be made to look like each other very easily, so unless there is something so integral to the script or the movie that it has to be done in that state, there’s always going to be some cost-benefit analysis...