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...writ of the international tribunal does not extend beyond the sidewalk outside its chambers. Like many other international institutions, from the IMF to NATO, the tribunal is a subsidiary of Pax Americana. These institutions are granted more or less formal independence, but absent the U.S., they are powerless...
Although his canvas has expanded, the perspective from which Ellroy views humanity has not. "I discovered politics is crime writ large," says the man who writes off J.F.K.'s assassination as "a business- dispute killing." And he found a new bete noire on the national stage: J. Edgar Hoover, the shadowy FBI director with a basketful of hatreds. "It was the horror of the abuse of power by Hoover and the fact that he went after Martin Luther King--and that King was the one guy he couldn't break--that's what interested me," says Ellroy. In high school...
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...