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...that liberty which the British Falkland Islanders regard as their birthright." The British government would continue to listen to plans that might break the deadlock, but it would enforce its blockade of the disputed archipelago. "If the [war] zone is challenged," she declared, "we shall take that as the clearest evidence that the search for a peaceful solution has been abandoned. We shall then take the necessary action. Let no one doubt that...
...moment the cosmic significance of propelling a disembodied mouth through a maze in search of sustenance, the primal terror of being pursued by monsters through empty, winding tunnels. Consider the psychological implications of the game like its innumerable lesser relatives, like its venerable ancestor, pinball, Pac-Man providers the clearest example you'll ever see of the theory of positive reinforcement, negative feedback Do something smart and you keep playing Do something dumb and wham' you have to stop. Buy this shiny little booklet-which looks like the manual they give you with a new T.V. and goes about...
Last month, in perhaps the clearest example of its Rooseveltian approach to trust-busting, the government decided to drop its nine-year effort to break up the three great ready-to-eat breakfast cereal manufacturers, who together control 80 percent of the market. The Federal Trade Commission had argued that there had been a "tacit understanding" between the three firms to keep prices up, but the government had been unable to prove the cereal companies had gained illegal profits, and the case remained soggy. In refraining from prosecuting successful corporations simply because they are successful--and large--the Reagan Administration...
...liberally therefrom, he is not obtrusive. His analytical passages seem to have been inserted into the narrative with maximum concern for short. American attention spans; they are humble and mostly insightful, free of excessive jargon-mongering, aware of the crushing bulk of Kafka criticism and content to suggest the clearest connections to the immediate moment of his life. If there are any complaints, they are that he is sometimes a bit oversolicitous and that he reminds us too often of Kafka's literary identification with animals. Although that is a recurrent and important trait in his writing...
...book concludes with a critique of affirmative action. Posner is on a well-traveled road here, and Posner adds little new to this familiar debate. This last section displays his clearest and most readable prose, but fails to live up to the perspicuity in his earlier pages, his economic analysis of common law and discerning a moral code in wealth-maximizing...