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...like girls, are having a lot of dark nights of the soul in which they see how disappointing adults can be and how unjust society is, but they may not be able to put their fears into words, or they do not want to because it makes them feel weak...
...Unemployment rates are pretty low right now, but economics degrees continue to grow. If the cause of the increased interest in economics is a weak job market, I would expect economics enrollments to be slowing about now,” he wrote...
...fell, so did the yuan's?China's currency had come to embody the industrialized world's fears of a hypercompetitive mainland staging a hostile takeover of global manufacturing. Led by the U.S., critics accused China of clinging to the dollar peg in order to keep the yuan artificially weak, making its exports extra cheap and fostering a worrisome trade gap with the U.S. that ballooned to a record $162 billion in 2004. Unless Beijing changed its currency policy, a trade war loomed. Still, Beijing wouldn't budge, leaving businessmen and investors across the globe guessing as to when this...
...week later, sitting bored at work in Vancouver, I tuned in on-line to Owain’s radio show and was overcome with shivers. Sure, his accent already makes my knees go weak, but this was something else. There he sat, thousands of miles away, laughing about celebrities, talking about the traffic, cracking average jokes–all in Welsh. Hearing Owain’s show drove home for me the power and permanence of the Welsh language...
...Filipinos shudder at the thought of depersonalized institutions and processes, fearing the harshness of laws untamed by individuals. We have never understood that the more depersonalized systems are, the more efficiently things get done. We are quite comfortable with weak institutions and strong leaders. And when the corruption of formal rules and procedures becomes all too evident and therefore unsettling, we eject leaders for their lack of finesse. We replace them with others, hoping against the odds that they can make things work. We invest too much in the possibility that people of extraordinary capacities will save us from...