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Soros wants us to imagine this same idea-crash-burn cycle writ much larger. What if we are wrong about the notion that the world's economies are coalescing into a vibrant, profitable whole? What if we are foolish to be congratulating ourselves on having cured recessions in the same way we once tackled smallpox? Soros, who made a fortune looking for and finding mistakes, worries we are making one now. He picks up on these errors by listening to his money. These days he doesn't like what he hears...
...America had figured neither in the Bible nor in Aristotle, so what was it doing there? Then, within a few decades, returning with explorers from east and west came a flood of new plant and animal species, all of them also absent from the canonical lists. Help! If Holy Writ and the Big A were wrong, which way was up? For more than a century, things taxonomic went to hell in a handbasket while the European intelligentsia behaved like Chicken Little...
With the nation's turkeys browning in the oven, the Florida Supreme Court took a holiday from activism and took Miami-Dade off the table. "The court has considered the writ? and denied it without prejudice," declared court spokesman Craig Waters just before 3 p.m. ET on Thanksgiving Day. "No motion to rehear will be allowed." There was no further comment...
...setbacks for Bush, that in Austin, "The party seemed to be ready to start." In other words, Bush overreached. He was smug. That victory party, scheduled possibly to start even before West Coast polls closed, is starting - just maybe, if Bush loses - to become the Bush smirk writ large...
Eternity: across the sidewalks of Sydney last century, street poet Arthur Stace meticulously chalked his hope. Last Friday evening, eternity was writ large in Sydney's Olympic Stadium at the climax of the Opening Ceremony's hourlong Australian cultural showcase. As tap dancers gave way to 13-year-old Nikki Webster and Djakapurra Munyarryun being levitated together toward the heavens, fireworks erupted across a screen in the shape of the Harbour Bridge, with Stace's copperplate script emblazoned...