“Ted Turner is a worried man. His media career is gone with the wind. His faith in the United Nations looks naive. He thinks humanity’s on the verge of extinction, and he’s down to his last billion,” says FORTUNE .
The suicide bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia , reminds me of a drama that has long taken place on American soil. It has to do with crimes committed against the bourgeoisie in areas Americans euphemistically refer to as “bad neighborhoods.” In the Tom Wolfe novel Bonfire of the Vanities , an investment banker inadvertently takes a wrong turn and
Economic history from Richard Bernstein of the New York Times : “In France, for example, mandatory vacations were among the great victories of the working class in its bitter struggle with capital, finally won when Léon Blum’s Popular Front government came to power, briefly, in
By T. F. Stone with apologies to Billy Joel. (Courtesy of Norman Singleton) He cut it once, he cut it twice He cut it twelve times before But still they believe to the core That this cut was needed even more But there’s no market bounce And is it time really, instead, for the Mapleleaf gold ounce? Yes they stand there pleadin’ With their
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