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...Excellent summaries were provided by Al Hunt and David Leonhardt. I made four arguments....
...A Horse Walks into a Bar , by David Grossman, translated by Jessica Cohen, Jonathan Cape, RRP£14.99/Knopf, RRP$25.95 “I’m a bottom-feeder, am I not?”...
...Israel, a country of 8.7m people, has produced a disproportionate number of Nobel laureates, acclaimed writers such as David Grossman and Amos Oz, and political household names like Golda Meir....
...A Horse Walks Into A Bar is set over a single evening in a modern-day nightclub in the small Israeli town of Netanya, where stand-up comedian Dov Greenstein is performing an act like no other....
...David Rejeski, of the Woodrow Wilson International Center, a US think-tank, says: “The essence of [technology] disruption is how difficult it is to perceive, let alone measure.”...
...“On the media side, there is real displacement of revenue from piracy,” said Shane Greenstein, professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Chicago....
...Bruce Anderson: Cameron needs a new narrative David Cameron is in danger of turning into a Heathite, says Anderson, a UK political commentator....
...Gene Sperling, formerly an economic adviser to Bill Clinton, has been mentioned; so too have Laura Tyson, who chaired Mr Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, and Robert Greenstein, director of the Centre...
...Mr Bush returned on Monday from his presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, where he spent the weekend considering appointments for his second term....
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