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...further confuse matters, influenza is inconsistent. It may lay siege to one town and leave the next untouched. That too perplexes the brain. We wonder why one school system shuts down and another stays open. We can't identify a pattern that makes sense...
...universal and ideal economic order." "The influence of the U.S. is declining," Hatoyama wrote, in a "new era of multipolarity," and he went so far as to propose something like a European Union - with a single currency, no less - in East Asia. It is enough to make one wonder how well founded the U.S.-Japan relationship really is, and how resilient to a changing global environment it is likely...
...less than 25%. With its base cracking, the left does what comes naturally; it splinters. In Germany, the first to bolt were the Greens in the 1970s, with a policy mix of anarchy, culture wars, environmentalism and pacifism. They are now safely on the road to embourgeoisement, and no wonder: the bulk of their supporters - teachers, social workers, the "caring classes" - are employed by the state. Next to go was the hard left, Die Linke, an amalgam of former East German communists and West German leftists who could not stomach the reformism of Schröder when...
...look past Washington, past Wall Street, turn down the volume and go outside and walk around, you'll find the parcels of grace, of ingenuity and enterprise - people riding change like a skateboard, speeding off a ramp, twisting, flipping, somehow landing with a rush of wind and wheels - and wonder that it somehow hasn't killed...
Jones thinks Trapasso hit the screen deliberately. If that's true, you have to wonder: Did he do it just to show the big TV that there are still some flesh-and-blood players in this game...