links for 2006-05-02
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The recent Yale graduate I was chatting with at a party here spoke Chinese and had lived in China, the seeming epicenter of all things capitalist. "Why did you decide to come to Afghanistan?" I asked. He stared at me. "This is the largest rebuilding and d
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AS GAS PRICES top $3 per gallon, politicians are cashing in big — by
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The glamorization of communism is widespread. On West 4th Street in Manhattan, the popular KGB Bar is known for its literary readings and Soviet propaganda posters. In Los Angeles, the La La Ling boutique sells baby clothing emblazoned with the face of Ch
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French President Jacques Chirac has announced that the new youth
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The estate tax isn't the only government action that affects the cost
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Any costs those who pursue wealth in the marketplace impose on others are swamped by the benefits they provide others by contributing to the general wealth. As a country's wealth goes up, infant mortality goes down; death from childbirth goes down; death
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Proving that any French politician should know better than to try to reform that country's economy, France has just scrapped its modest youth labor reform. Sluggish, inflexible and costly that economy may be, exemplified in Europe's highest youth unemploy