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Putins State Capitalism Means Falling Growth
Russia's economic growth rate is causing serious concern. The fundamental problem is that Russia has almost reached full capacity. Growth is likely to stay low until Russia undertakes profound systemic reforms, but no such reforms are on the agenda. Russia's gross domestic product grew reasonably well at 4.3 percent in 2010 and 2011. The growth rate dropped to 3.4 percent in 2012 and ...
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Editorial Crowns aims for science give focus for research
Science has been a black hole for taxpayers' money. Governments of all stripes agree that science is something they should fund without knowing very much about it. They maintain Crown research institutes for the needs of primary industries and for studying the country's weather, geology, minerals and the like. They also fund research in universities and hospitals with few questions ...
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Globe Editorial Prime Minister needed to say more in speech to caucus
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper points to the door as he speaks to members of Caucus on Parliament Hill Tuesday May 21, 2013 in Ottawa. (Adrian ...
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Russias spy tale about American sounds fishy
expulsion as a spy of a U.S. Embassy employee in Moscow last week. The Russian Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, said that Ryan C. Fogle was caught red-handed trying to recruit one of its officers, carrying cash, a letter, a compass, a map, sunglasses and two wigs. We don’t know what Fogle was doing, but the story sounds fishy. Back in the 1970s, perhaps, a CIA case officer ...
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How a U.S. Spy Saved an FSB Agents Rear End
Yulia Latynina One month after the Tsarnaev brothers detonated bombs at the Boston Marathon, Moscow authorities arrested a U.S. citizen they suspected of being a spy. We are told that Ryan Fogle, a U.S. diplomat with the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, attempted to recruit an FSB officer who traveled with U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agents to the North Caucasus to investigate ties the ...
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Rule by Proxy Is New U.S. Leadership Model
The demise of the Roman Empire resulted from a combination of strategic overreach and excessive delegation of security responsibilities to newcomers. Without making undue comparisons, the question for the U.S. today is whether it can remain the world's leading power while delegating to others or to technological tools the task of protecting its global influence. Using nonhuman weapons such ...
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The Real Costs of CIA Cash
reported recently that the CIA routinely provides cash payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, totaling in the tens of millions of dollars, many were surprised. I wasn't among them. The Karzai scandal cycle has developed a certain amount of redundancy: his odd outbursts, his family's endless corruption, the vacillating positions on peace negotiations and about faces on the Taliban ...
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Minnesota Legislature yields mixed results
No trumpets blared or crowds cheered Monday night as the 2013 Legislature’s regular session drew to a close. Weary legislators are expected to troop home today to confront mixed responses to the year’s labors. We share that ambivalence, and concede that it may spring from expectations that were too high. This year’s return to all-DFL control at the Capitol after 22 years of ...
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Catholic nuns put faith before church hierarchy
Recently, opponents of deportations held a rally to commemorate the five-year anniversary of what they call an unjust immigration sweep of 389 people in a kosher meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa. Last July, three people breached security and entered a nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., housing highly enriched uranium, where they spilled blood at the site before being arrested. Last ...
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The Starfleet Divide The Star Trek Universe Revisits One Of Its Great Debates
Abrams' hyperactive movie talked fast and walked fast -- when it wasn't at a dead run. Indeed, in its breakneck pace and its camera-flare and whip-pan-loving ...
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At L.A.s UnCabaret 25 Years Of Letting It All Hang Out
Beth Lapides (with music director-producer Mitch Kaplan) is the founder and ringmaster at UnCabaret, a Los Angeles comedy institution that's marking its 25th anniversary this ...
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The Little Metronome That Wouldnt
keep doing that. Metronomes not in sync with the table have their motions dampened, then countered, until they do it "the table's way." Eventually all the metronomes come into alignment. That's what you saw in our small, chamber music version. Now we're going symphonic. This time, we'll have a much bigger table with 32 brightly colored metronomes -- a Mormon ...
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Sandwich Monday The Saltwich
panel of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine says limiting salt below a certain amount may not really do us any good. Around here, we take this to mean: Eat as much salt as you can or you'll die. So, we've created The Saltwich, made with the saltiest foods we could find. Salami, bacon, pickles and salt-and-vinegar potato chips, on salty pretzel bread. Salt to ...
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Mel Brooks Im An EGOT I Dont Need Any More
Comedian, writer, director, producer and actor Mel Brooks is one of only 11 people to have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. Others in the elite EGOT club include Mike Nichols and Whoopi ...
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Myanmar army continues to live in denial over abuses
Myanmar's rapidly evolving political landscape produced another symbolic event at the recent Armed Forces Day parade. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi attended for the first time, sitting alongside generals in the viewing stands as thousands of troops, tanks, and missiles passed by. An open question is who needed who more -- a deeply unpopular military seeking the aura of an ...
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Editorial First Amendment rumble
However, in order to gather evidence against Kim, FBI Agent Reginald Reyes filed an affidavit in federal court indicating there was evidence that Rosen (who was not mentioned by name in the affidavit) had broken the law "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator." Nearly four years later, Rosen has not been charged with a crime, but indicating there was a ...
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Op-Ed Contributor American Global Primacy and Presidential Vision
As we debate our role in the world today, it is worth asking how American global primacy came about in the last century. After all, George Washington celebrated our ...
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Letter Turkey and Syria A Slippery Slope
Regarding the article ...
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A quick count for L.A.
With any luck, the campaign for mayor of Los Angeles will end Tuesday in a decisive victory for one candidate or the other. Then the winner can begin the task of building an administration and filling the ranks of commission appointments that will form the city's leadership core for the next four - or possibly eight - years. But this is a close race, and many residents have voted by mail or ...
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Prayers in public offices
The Supreme Court should rule that prayers in official meetings in Greece, N.Y., shouldn't favor a particular religion. Public bodies should stick to secular ...
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Goldberg Obamas idiot defense
David Axelrod defended the administration on the grounds that the "government is so vast" the president "can't know" what's going on "underneath" him. Of course, it was Obama who once said, "I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors." In a matter of weeks, the president went from saying the "government is ...
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Patrick Chappatte Apple and Tax Avoidance
Why would Apple executives try to avoid paying billions in taxes in the United States and around the world? Patrick Chappatte is an editorial cartoonist for the International Herald Tribune. View more of his work, visit his Web site or follow him on ...
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GAFFNEY The night that all the lights go out
View results In 1987, Ronald Reagan mused that if the world were about to be devastated by an alien force - perhaps a collision with a large asteroid - peoples of all nations, ideological persuasions and political parties would come together to save the planet and our civilization. We may be about to test that proposition.At the moment, no asteroid is known to be hurtling our way. A naturally ...
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SOLOMON Chilling one reporters sources
Justice Department secretly collected the phone records of four of my former colleagues at The Associated Press, I was one of the first reporters to have his home phone records and personal mail gathered by ...
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EDITORIAL Mr. Obama and his scandals
Mr. Pruitt , ';if you talk to the press, we’re going to go after you.';The FBI did obtain a warrant before demanding that Google turn over the personal emails ...
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Turkmenistan's new olympic development could be blessing or curse
Work has finally begun on the massive Ashgabat Olympic complex development, a US $5 billion project that aims to enhance the standing of the capital city when Turkmenistan makes a bid to host the Olympic Games.
The sports complex being built in Ashgabat will be the largest and most state-of-the-art of its kind in Central Asia, underscoring Turkmenistan’s position as a regional power due to the country’s extensive natural gas and oil reserves, while its completion will also illustrate the growing presence of the country in the international community. Read more
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