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Shock therapy

08-10-02 – 11:57:pm

The NYT offers a curious meditation on the historical parallels between the collapse of the USSR (when “shock therapy” was the order of the day) and the US’s current difficulties:
Just in time:
“The time of domination by one economy and one currency has been consigned to the past once and for all,” Medvedev said during a [...]

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Top of the morning

08-09-29 – 09:49:am

It’s morning in America.
When was the last time GWB gave a press conference in light like that? Desperate times call for desperate measures.

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An Army of one

08-09-19 – 10:23:pm

CJR:
Bob Owen, chief photographer of the San Antonio Express-News, notified the AP that the photos of two deceased soldiers, who died in Iraq on Sept. 14, were nearly identical. Upon examining the photos, Owens noticed that everything except for the soldier’s face, name, and rank was the same. The most glaring similarity, Owen told CJR, [...]

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