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Charles Krakoff
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A Dog’s Life

Posted on 03/10/10 at 8:56am
CNN reported yesterday that China may be on the verge of  banning human consumption of dogs and cats and imposing fines of as much as 500,000 renminbi (about $73,000) on shops and restaurants that serve the meat and up to
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The Green Jobs Myth

Posted on 03/10/10 at 4:30am
The Economist has just launched a new online debate on the proposition that “creating green jobs is a sensible aspiration for governments.” Van Jones, President Obama’s former special adviser on green jobs, argues in favor; Andrew P.
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The Three (or is it Five?) Wives of Jacob Zuma

Posted on 03/04/10 at 9:30am
South African President Jacob Zuma, currently on a three-day state visit to Britain, has come in for a rough time in the British press, which has castigated him for his polygamous habits.  Stephen Robinson, writing in
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The Jobless Recovery and Other Paradoxes

Posted on 02/24/10 at 4:17pm
In yesterday’s New York Times Janet Yellen, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, is quoted as predicting a slow drop in the U.S.
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The Welfare State, South Pacific Style

Posted on 02/15/10 at 12:22am
Not quite two weeks ago I visited Daru, a town of some 20,000 people on an island of the same name situated near the mouth of the Fly River in the southwestern part of Papua New Guinea. Daru is the current administrative capital of Western Province, a vast area about the size of Maine and New Hampshire combined, with some 150,000 inhabitants and a mere 50 miles of road.
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Investing in Palestine

Posted on 01/26/10 at 4:56am
I arrived Saturday afternoon in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, after a week on the West Bank and a 36-hour voyage that started in Ramallah, the West Bank city that serves as the administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority, and involved eight time zones, five airports, four flights, three airlines, and two bags, which missed my connection in Sydney but arrived tw
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Help for Haiti

Posted on 01/14/10 at 4:04pm
Even before Tuesday’s earthquake Haiti had experienced 200 years of some of the worst luck that can befall a nation. Once France’s richest colony, it was a slave economy built on sugar, coffee, and the misery of African slaves, who finally revolted, saw off an invasion of 30,000 of Napoleon’s troops, and declared independence in 1804.
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Public Servants, Public Masters

Posted on 01/06/10 at 1:50pm
The current issue of reason magazine  publishes an article by Steven Greenhut, a former columnist for the Orange County Register, entitled “Class War: How public servants became our masters.” You don’t have to be a survivalist living in th
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Homeland Insecurity

Posted on 12/29/09 at 11:30pm
First we had the Shoe Bomber, and now we have the Underpants Bomber, at least according to the pictures in the New York Times, which showed parts of the incendiary device still attached to the man’s undershorts, conclusively answering the question “Boxers or Briefs?” and offering, perhaps, a little more information than some of us need.
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Language, Climate Change, and the Third World Hero

Posted on 12/26/09 at 9:08pm
My friend Lumumba Stanislaus-Kaw Di-Aping made a splash at the recent Copenhagen Climate Conference, likening its final communiqué, which committed signatories (non-bindingly) to a 2.0-degree Celsius maximum rise in average global temperatures over preindustrial levels, to the Holocaust.   Lumumba, Sudan’s Ambassador to the United Nations and the spokesman for the G-77 group of developing count
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