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...A superb report by Youkyung Lee and Ryan Nakashima showed how little Psy has made from “Gangnam Style” in his native South Korea: about $50,000 from CD sales and $61,000 from 3.6m downloads....
...Mr Ryan even has a gift for beating up on his own party....
...Candidates with some connection to Middle American voters – Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor, Mitch Daniels, the Indiana governor and congressman Paul Ryan – bowed out of the primaries, leaving the...
...Sir, Christopher Caldwell (“It’s only natural for people to hold a partisan bias”, February 23) opines that voters’ allegiance to a particular political party in the US is a kind of religion....
...But even Mr Ryan, more comfortable with the nitty-gritty of government than any of his colleagues, favoured attitude over policy....
...Sir, I suspect that Christopher Caldwell’s real gripe with Barack Obama’s “social Darwinism” charge against the Paul Ryan wing of the Republican party is President Obama’s cheek in wandering on to a patch...
...Mr Williams, the defensive co-ordinator who ran the New Orleans bounty system, is a protégé of Mr Ryan....
...Addressing the American Society of Newspaper Editors on the subject of House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan’s new budget, Mr Obama accused Republicans who backed it of “thinly veiled social Darwinism...
...The Ryan budget shows up the president’s inattention to the problem....
...In fact, Democrats have focused on discrediting Mr Ryan’s reforms since late 2009....
...This logic may eventually suck a politician with big ideas, such as House Budget chairman Paul Ryan, into the Republican primaries....
...Jane Lowe, Amanda Ryan and Jayne Wisener are strong around Doel as mother, gran and sister respectively....
...Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt (Knopf, $24.95; UK: Allen Lane, £20) The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard More columns at www.ft.com/caldwell...
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