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...In 1973, the American novelist Ursula K Le Guin defined the essential function of science fiction as “distancing, the pulling back from ‘reality’ in order to see it better”....
...If the US continues with its K-shaped recovery, the IMF’s prediction of post-pandemic upheaval may prove prescient. Edward Luce is on book leave and will return in mid-March....
...So, yes, after reading Howard’s book it is easy to shake your head in horror about petty — sometimes stupid — rules....
...I live in France, so my petty problems are shared with a mere 1.3 million Britons in the EU: I may require a residence permit to stay in my own home; I could lose access to healthcare....
...You can present your rival candidate for prime minister as a dangerous threat; but you look weak and petty if you pay a leadership pretender the same compliment....
...If Trent Reznor [of Nine Inch Nails] says ‘Get the f**k out of my way,’ you get the f**k out of his way. Dr Dre said: ‘If you send one of your guys up to my studio they’re not going to make it out....
...“At that time I was so removed from political consciousness and moral foundation — I was just a petty criminal....
...The reviewer is an FT leader writer Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe by James K Galbraith (Yale University Press, £18.99/ $26)...
...But many folk tales laugh at both bloodshed and petty cruelties, and the grotesque, the dreadful and the banal are always getting mixed together in comedy and satire....
...A post-scarcity economy — a.k.a. the economic reality of an abundant system — may not necessarily lead to a utopian world....
...She is contesting the R.K. Puram constituency in Delhi – one of 70 seats in the teeming National Capital Territory of 17m inhabitants – in the state election on Wednesday....
...And his status as the champion of shareholder value was destroyed when he made off from GE with a retirement package both outlandish and petty....
...TJ’s products are made by about 1,000 convicts who have committed crimes ranging from petty theft to murder....
...This is not a modus operandi I use, partly because I don’t believe it to be true – and partly because of the “k” word....
...The economist J.K. Galbraith asserted that fraud rose in a bull market and shrank in a slump. As he put it, the “bezzle” rises in a boom because of lax controls and fades in a bust....
...The politicisation of the job could reverse the considerable achievements of Mr Kalam and K.R. Narayanan, his predecessor....
...An animated film noir set in 2054 Paris and inspired by the world of Philip K. Dick, its slickly styled monochrome recalls Sin City....
...While much petty frugality is simply silly, the costs of corruption are far greater than the direct losses from corruption itself....
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