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...jihadists’ attack on Madrid’s trains. Some predicted at the time of Spain’s pullout that the terrorists had won and that this would surely lead to terrorist attacks in other countries just before national elections. Some said that Spain had proved itself weak and the terrorists would be sure to target it even more in the future. Neither prediction has proved true. Countries from Australia to Denmark to Macedonia all have troops in Iraq, but since 2004 there has not been a repeat of pre-election terrorism. And in Spain, the country?...
...liberals’ attempts to capture the moral high ground have thus far been weak or incoherent, especially in their moral case for single-payer health care. Such a system, by funneling most health care spending into the public sector, eliminates the private sector, and thus inequity. Millionaires, they beam, have to wait in the same lines for surgery as janitors. It is egalitarian. And therein lies its problem...
...deficits, a lax monetary policy and the falling dollar. "The European economy is on tranquilizers," retorted Laura D'Andrea Tyson, dean of the London Business School and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Clinton Administration. She argues that Europe is both too complacent about its weak growth and strong common currency, and too slow to boost its international competitiveness in response to surging U.S. and Chinese productivity...
...much time, said Tyson and Naim. "Europe has a tsunami coming its way this year," warned Naim. He predicted that as the weak dollar undermines European companies, European countries will be paralyzed by a clash between businesses urging far greater flexibility and unions and other groups seeking protectionist barriers. "This is the clash we're going to see emerging powerfully in Europe in the next 24 months," Naim said...
...documents of any kind, made by Aborigines who live in an entirely different area. This infuriates some Australian graziers, especially those whose stations (ranches) are on land they do not own outright but hold in lease from the Crown. A native title claim on their land, even a weak one, can freeze their assets and put bank loans out of reach. Moreover, it is facile to fall in with the favorite assumption of white urban Australian liberals: that only Aborigines have an authentic spiritual connection to the land. Why cannot whites have...