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November 20, 2011 7:35 pm
We have to do better on inequality
By Lawrence Summers


http://www.pewglobal.org/2011/11/17/the ... alues-gap/
Released: November 17, 2011
American Exceptionalism Subsides
The American-Western European Values Gap


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How China Can Defeat America
By YAN XUETONG
Published: November 20, 2011


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Teaching Good Sex
Published: November 16, 2011


Hmmm... NY Times is running a Russian bride ad banner: http://www.planetlovematch.com/russian- ... fault.aspx (ID code removed ;p )


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Sorry, Strivers: Talent Matters
By DAVID Z. HAMBRICK and ELIZABETH J. MEINZ
Published: November 19, 2011


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Taking First-Class Coddling Above and Beyond
Mac W. Bishop/The New York Times
By JAD MOUAWAD
Published: November 20, 2011


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How About Better Parents?
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: November 19, 2011

Ya Amazon is ridiculous, it steals local jobs and pays no local taxes like others are required to.

This is why I cut down on my entertainment spending by a lot. I'll freely admit that I pirate a lot of media products simply because I don't believe in paying a lot of cash for some blu-ray release of a movie that cost $2 to manufacture in a malaysian factory somewhere. I might go see it in the theater if it's a really good release and that's where film studios make up the largest proportion of their gross to pay for production costs.

In most cases the money you pay for when you go watch movies goes straight to the top to wealthy movie executives and stars.