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...Michael Ayres San Francisco, CA, US...
...As a teenager, he was “very interested in leftwing stuff that was outside the mainstream — Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, listening to weird music”....
...After a sleepless night, Mayor Noam Bramson called his city manager to spill out his worries. On March 10, he thought New Rochelle’s lockdown looked “dramatic”....
...It won McKay and co-writer Charles Randolph an Oscar for their screenplay, adapted from Michael Lewis’s book....
...My mum bought me a copy of Noam Chomsky’s World Orders Old and New for Christmas when I was 16. I don’t know if it changed my life, but it definitely got me thinking. Where do you write best?...
...Following contacts between the two countries, Michael Ratney, the US special envoy for Syria, said Washington and Moscow had worked “to secure a general recommitment” to the February ceasefire by all combatants...
...Almost simultaneously, Michael Lewis has published The Undoing Project, about Kahneman’s intellectual collaboration with fellow psychologist Amos Tversky....
...Michael O’Hanlon, director of research for the foreign policy programme at the Brookings Institution, said the recapture of Ramadi was good news — but that it also offered a cautionary tale for what lay...
...Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman study the US labour market during the Gilded Age, and find lessons to draw for today....
...Additional reporting by Noam Raydan in Beirut...
...After Lehman, D’Angelin set up Ondra, an advisory boutique, with Michael Tory, who had run UK investment banking....
...Vonetize, an Israeli company that offers video on demand to customers in Africa, Latin America and other emerging markets, is “not very focused on the exit”, in the words of its chief executive, Noam Josephides...
...Research by Noam Wasserman, a Harvard Business School professor, suggests that most founders face the choice of “rich versus king”....
...Noam Chomsky, the celebrated American political thinker, argues that any “serious media critique” needs to look at sport and soap operas: “These are the types of things which occupy most of the media – most...
...He is also right that (as Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky have pointed out more elegantly) this kind of media blather helps distract people from politics....
...michael.skapinker@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/michaelskapinker...
...The Afghan war also provides the starting point for Michael Mandelbaum’s examination of the limits of American power....
...For Jones, these and other satirists and comics, such as Michael Moore and Al Franken (now a senator), have done two things, both positive....
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...Fugitive Pieces is a disappointingly flat adaptation of Anne Michaels’ poetic novel of Holocaust survival....
...This seems to have caught Mr McCain (and his favourite FCC Chairman Michael Powell) by surprise....
...If that does not work, they are often tempted to return, as did both Mr Yang at Yahoo and Michael Dell at his eponymous company....
...Could it go on the linguistics shelf alongside Noam Chomsky and Greenbaum’s Oxford English Grammar? Perhaps not. It would rather lower the tone....
...By Tuesday, the campaign of Michael Steele, the lieutenant governor of Maryland who is running for the Senate, had fessed up....
...Also racing on the un-gruelling course will be Casino City’s Michael Corfman, who will be taking on Ken Dreifach of the New York attorney-general’s office....
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