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It seems like a defiantly optimistic thing to do these days, when all anyone can talk about is the decline of the printed form. It seems like it should be that kind of gesture, but it never crossed my mind that it was an expression of defiance. If it's...
How do you figure out how to price a used book? I'm supposed to say something like, "If I told you, I'd have to kill you." It can't be explained. You just have to know.
Reforms after the financial crisis were supposed to dramatically downsize what bank executives - including hotshot traders - get paid. But a year later, little seems to have changed. Banks, which have roared back to profitability this year, look poised to dole out billions of dollars in year-end bonuses for 2009...
Then what? First, perhaps, a pause for breath. In 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, there were 12 members of the European Community, as the E.U. was then known. Now there are 27. Inevitably, institutional reform of this metastasizing body has dominated debate for years, as its members have...
The idea came from Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who is no stranger to playing God. In 2002, he spearheaded a project to reverse the flow of the vast River Ob through Siberia to help irrigate the country's parched Central Asian neighbors. Although that idea hasn't exactly turned out as...