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...against other countries'. "If you talk about competitiveness you tend to fall into a football way of thinking," says Deirdre McCloskey, a professor of economics and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago who has studied the use of rhetoric in economics. The goal of competition is winning. If we want to win, then maybe we need to start helping industries that haven't done a very good job of competing on their own. Automobiles, anyone...
...proposal by moderate House Republicans that assures that the government would not interfere with medical decisions now left to doctors and their patients. But one thing seems clear: Republicans have figured out that, this time, the debate over health-care reform is not one they are going to win simply by saying...
...next few months. John Reed, the former CEO of Citibank, is among the group of individuals who recruiters say should be on any bank's short list. Henry Paulson, the former Treasury Secretary, could be a candidate as well, though some question whether a Paulson appointment would win points with the current Administration...
...Everyone is very angry with this wretched American. He is the cause of all these problems. He's a fool." -Kyi Win, one of Suu Kyi's lawyers (Independent...
...likely to produce results today. The moderate Abbas, who really reigns only over the West Bank, now speaks for just a fraction of Palestinian public opinion, and Israel's security chief, Yuval Diskin, warned on Tuesday that Hamas (which controls the other Palestinian enclave, Gaza, outright) would win any Palestinian election held right...