NY Times, August 22, 2007
Iraq War Brings Drop in Black Enlistees
By SARAH ABRUZZESE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 — Joining the Reserve Officer Training Corps was
once an attractive choice for people with few options growing up in
impoverished, predominantly black East Baltimore. That has all changed,
I'm told that today's Thomas Friedman column extols decoupling for
utilities.
It is no surprise that he doesn't know what he;s talking about.
Can anyone who gets the column send me a copy?
Gene Coyle
Gene Coyle wrote:
I'm told that today's Thomas Friedman column extols decoupling for
utilities.
It is no surprise that he doesn't know what he;s talking about.
Can anyone who gets the column send me a copy?
The New York Times / August 22, 2007
Go Green and Save Money
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Cable TV show about a real estate flipper:
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On Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 16:18:08 (-0400) Walt Byars writes:
Hi, can anyone recommend some books or articles criticizing the (absurd
sounding) claim that that the idea of political freedom and its
desirability were invented in the West and only exists in other cultures
because of
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COMMENT ANALYSIS
Analysis
How the British army lost Basra
By Stephen Fidler
Published: August 20 2007 18:33 | Last updated: August 20 2007 18:33
In the immediate
Robert Wrubel wrote:
Wasn't there also a supply factor,
in an excess of money that needed to
find new outlets for investment?
I replied:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8c9dea94-3e30-11dc-8f6a-779fd2ac.html
The surpluses built up faster as oil and
other commodity prices went up.
Somewhat
Also, if somebody has Henry Kaufman's (WSJ) piece Our Risky New
Financial Markets, please share with the list.
Bruni, Luigino. 2006. Civil Happiness: Economics and Human Flourishing in
Historical
Perspective (London: Routledge).
He says that a very attractive type of individualist communitarianism existed in
Italy in the 13th century until the tyrants took over the city states.
Machiavelli
reflected
Here's Henry Kaufman.Our Risky New Financial MarketsBy HENRY KAUFMANAugust 15, 2007; Page A13Tremors from America's quaking subprime mortgage market have spread throughout the financial world. This latest disturbance in global financial markets is neither isolated nor idiosyncratic. It points to
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