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The recent arrest of Anderson Kill & Olick paralegal Brian Valery for practicing law without a license raises a number of questions about how the ersatz Fordham graduate could have gotten away with representing corporate clients in complex litigation–wit
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The engine that drives the radical Christian right in the United States - the most dangerous mass movement in American history - is not religiosity, but despair. It is a movement built on the growing personal and economic despair of tens of millions of Am
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Two strands of environmental philosophy run through the course of human history. The first holds that the natural state of the universe is one of infinite stability, with an unchanging earth anchoring the predictable revolutions of the sun, moon, and star
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When Jim Webb, the new Democratic senator from Virginia, replied to George Bush’s state-of-the-union message, he could bear to endorse only one of the president’s proposals. This was the idea of cutting America’s petrol (gasoline) consumption by 20% in te
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An exaggerated pride in ethnic and religious identity is a familiar curse in the Balkans, and at first glance the Serbian elections that took place on January 21st confirm that the curse continues: the greatest share of the vote was won by the ultra-natio
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The economy of the euro area is basking in a rare period of optimism. Growth forecasts ended the year higher than at the start of the year, the first time this has happened since 2000. The growth differential with America’s economy has narrowed and is exp
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FindARide.org is a gateway to transportation options in the Puget Sound area. It provides links to transportation tools such as the transit trip planner, and includes a searchable database to allow people with special transportation needs, case managers,
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The current season of Fox’s television series “24″ began with a dilemma that will be familiar to long-time devotees of the program. A man’s wife and child have been taken hostage by a terrorist. If the man does not help him carry out his plans, his family
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It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which status and money could somehow be dropped upon a sub-sample
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The history of economic thought in the twentieth century is a bit like the history of Christianity in the sixteenth century. Until John Maynard Keynes published The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money in 1936, economics—at least in the Eng
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The Institute of International Studies promotes interdisciplinary research in international, comparative, and policy studies on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.
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Founded more than 40 years ago, The CRSP has been the leading provider of historical research-quality stock market data to nearly 500 institutions. CRSP maintains some of the largest, most comprehensive proprietary historical databases in the industry. Ac
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To present and produce African-American cultural programs that encourage thought and debate for the greater Seattle area.
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Three years after Chad began exporting its oil with assistance from the World Bank, few people outside the capital have access to electricity, running water, paved roads, and health clinics. Public schools are nonexistent. Life expectancy is 46 years for
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The mission of the Stroum Jewish Community Center is to ensure Jewish continuity, to support Jewish unity, to enrich Jewish life, and to participate in and promote the well-being of the Jewish and general community and the people of Israel.
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The possibility of Kyrgyzstan joining the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative has sparked heated debates among state institutions and civil society groups. Recently, Andrei Grozin, representing
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On March 30, 2006 a roundtable discussion on “Kyrgyzstan’s entry to HIPC: risks and opportunities” was held at the Institute of Public Policy. Ernis Abdurazakov, Head of Public Debt and Assets Management of the Ministry of Economy and Finances of th
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Welcome to TimeBucks.org. Use this site to share your skills and find services you need. Posted services are usually less formal and less profit-oriented than other directories. Most people who provide services just want to share a talent or support an or
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On May 23 1960, when Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion announced to the Knesset that “Adolf Eichmann, one of the greatest Nazi war criminals, is in Israeli custody”, US and West German intelligence services reacted to the stunning news not with joy
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Today, there are more than 190 million migrants in the world. Many set out in search of adventure, but Africa’s poor are fleeing desparation for a life of hope in Europe. Though rarely welcome, neither laws nor walls can stop them from making the dangerou
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The few nasty experiences that Ugandans like to narrate are darkness, potholes and poverty. Darkness is caused by load shedding while potholes on our roads are caused by a mixture of reasons such as shoddy construction; poor drainage and maintenance, amon
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Beginning in 1994, Mexico set about a project of recreation: it built itself new institutions to watch guard the democratic process. And yet, though this nascent Mexican democracy was borne of Vincente Fox’s election to that country’s presidency in 20
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Readers of the National Post and The New York Times learned last week that by 2020, “China will be home to 300 million more men than women.” Unfortunately, the truth is only about one tenth as astonishing. As the Times’ correction to the Reuters story tha
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Over in the House of Representatives, the Democrats now in control raced through their 100-hours agenda. They passed new ethics and earmark rules and their six campaign pledges on issues like the minimum wage and stem cell research. The Senate, meanwhile,
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The politically correct architect of today is confronted with the following kinds of questions. Can I glaze the towers of the new headquarters of the Russian energy leviathan Gazprom with a clean conscience? Should I abandon my construction sites in Thail
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With such a huge amount of new content being created every instant on the internet, getting unfiltered news and blogs is like trying to take a drink from a firehose. With so many opinions, and so many sources, how does one know which sources can be truste
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For a space hero, Sergey Krikalev is something of a grump. Krikalev holds the world’s record for time spent in outer space—he has logged an incredible 803 days, including time on Russia’s Mir space station back in the 1980s, when the International Space
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The top crime neighborhood in the world isn’t in Sao Paulo or Lagos. It’s not the Bronx in New York, or even Wedding in Berlin. It’s the small city ruled by Pope Benedict XVI, which apparently sees more criminal cases per capita than any other part of the
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Comparisons have inevitably emerged between current U.S. operations in Iraq and the Vietnam War. Yet, as Brent Ranalli explains, there are other parallels that can be drawn — even from ancient warfare. To make his point, the author draws ten major paral
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There is nothing like waking up to the smell of burning tires. Looking out the window of my eighth-floor Beirut apartment, I have to rub my eyes more than once to make sure I am actually seeing plumes of smoke rising from all corners of the city. Are the
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A translation of Goethe’s ‘Faustus’ by one of the greatest names in literary history is to be published in September. Arifa Akbar traces an extraordinary 200-year-old story that began with a £100 advance and a broken promise
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Since President George W. Bush’s 2004 electoral victory, there has been a flood of books promoting apocalyptic visions of impending theocracy. Reading them, you might think the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition invented Christian political activism
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It is said that emerging Christians confess their faith like mainliners—meaning they say things publicly they don’t really believe. They drink like Southern Baptists—meaning, to adapt some words from Mark Twain, they are teetotalers when it is judicio
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