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Experts have been busy placing the burden of blame on the technology sector and its famously overvalued stock prices. Considering the hype--and subsequent expectation inflation--that has surrounded the success of the dot-coms, implicating Internet fever is a safe, uncontroversial explanation that specialists feel comfortable voicing and that the public is eager to swallow...
...average of 19 percent for the next ten years. This figure is totally irrational for a long-term prediction, and reflects the kind of ignorance that led people to continue to transfer funds to the technology sector long after it became hopelessly overvalued. It's so simple, then, to blame that sector as a sort of disembodied entity rather than understanding that this sort of correction was ultimately inevitable--that although it was impossible to prevent this mini-crash, it could have been prepared for if people took a step back from "getting rich quick" and looked at the ludicrousness...
...administration's opposition to the World Bank proposal, however, comes at a tense time, when the gap between the richest and the poorest countries is rapidly increasing. Poorer nations blame this disparity on the U.S. and other highly developed countries, which have left them far behind in the race towards economic globalization. Thus, the new trend reflected in both the World Bank proposal and the African trade bill, both of which aim to increase exports from the world's poorest countries, must be applauded. Loans--the standard approach to foreign aid--often prove ineffective at best and detrimental at worst...
...McKnight's attempt at mixing his slow R&B up by changing into different form-fitting clothes seemed gratuitous at parts. Yet it is hard to blame him when the ladies in his audience demanded the sway of the hips here, the unbuttoning of the shirt there. Nevertheless, I got the feeling during the sagging conversational interludes that he wasn't particularly concerned about his dynamic sensual energy, but the love that each person found in his or her own lives. This was most exemplified by the startling gospel interlude, during which he preached about the amazing works of Jesus...
...this point we are supposed to be angry at the government for blaming Childers. But we've seen what happened in Yemen-Childers is alt least 90 percent to blame-whether or not he should be made a scapegoat is beyond the point. As his lawyer Childers chooses Col. Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones '69), a close friend whose life he saved in Vietnam. Hodges is a recovering alcoholic who has just retired-he was never a very good lawyer, but he feels that he owes it to his friend to defend...