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It does, although it's not a body that I would rest our foreign policy on. The U.N. [however] can be a useful instrument of American foreign policy.
For one thing, this war is tragic but not inherently dramatic. The useful clichés of old war films--capturing a hill from the bad guys, getting an enemy uniform in gun sight, wooing a pretty maiden in a distant land--don't apply to a conflict on city streets...
All that's left of Taylorism among management consultants today is a pretense to scientific precision in whatever it is that consultants do, which generally involves parachuting into some situation, being smarter than everybody else, coming up with a solution--or at least a PowerPoint presentation--and then leaping onto...
But despite the fear, the end is not, in fact, nigh. After an orgy of excesses in the credit and housing markets, a measure of sobriety and restraint may have a useful cleansing effect. That said, tremendous risks remain - not least a mounting threat of a U.S. recession. Surveying this...
Not that our coach seats were cramped. The new Airbus is one of the world's longest airplanes and can typically seat 313 passengers, but the airline installed just 181 seats to allow more room. There are 117 in coach in a 2-3-2 layout. Not only is each...