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…s arrival in Hong Kong in 2013.. He proposed we meet at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club on top of Ice House Street in central Hong Kong, a venue, I recalled, reminiscent of where John LeCarre had set the opening chapter of his spy novel The Honourable Schoolboy. When we spoke...

…life-forms—are often stuck in local minima. David Kaiser: “Information” for Wiener, for Shannon, and for Us Many of the central arguments in The Human Use of Human Beings seem closer to the 19th century than the 21st. Wiener seems not to have fully embraced Shannon’s notion of in...

… I had mapped out at great length, in great detail, every one of the steps I knew we would have to take to confront the central issue facing Israel: the need for peace. 1 In choosing to return, now, to Camp David for two weeks of summit talks, I knew the risks. Of all the moments...

… for instance, Charles, the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel who faced down Napoleon on the fields of Jena in what is now central Germany in October 1806. Brusnwick-Wolfenbuttel was then 71 years old. He was considered one of the most courageous soldiers of his age, with a record o...

…oing, but we will learn about our own individual vulnerability to follow suit. This prologue provides a sampling of the central ideas minus the rich evidence and explanations that follow in the four core chapters of this book. A brief history of malice Homo sapiens, the knowing a...

… thanked many folks in his farewell message, including “Persephone, who enabled me to say, ‘Yes,’ when a friend here in Central New York said, ‘Do you know a good adoption lawyer in Arkansas?’ It was my greatest cameo role, my finest hour as a networker, and I couldn’t have done...

…nnihilating it, and flouting the rule of law while maintaining a plausible veneer of order, legitimacy, and prosperity. Central to the modern authoritarian strategy is the capture of institutions that undergird political pluralism. The goal is to dominate not only the executive a...

…Global growth is showing broad-based signs of improvement, supported by decisive monetary policy from the world's major central banks. In the US, the housing market recovery continues and the labor market remains on a modest uptrend. This has helped improve the sentiment of US co...

…dollars of property was destroyed. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, on December 9, 2003 the Multidistrict Litigation Panel centralized six then-pending September 11–related cases before this Court ‘‘for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings.’’ Additional actions, that are...

… practices - safeguards in favor of justified enforcement. This challenge gets less attention than criminal procedure's central preoccupation of guarding against excessive or groundless criminal charges. Concern about misuse of the state's prosecution authority rightly motivates...

7.3 Toward a Formal Characterization of Real-World General Intelligence 135 7.3 Toward a Formal Characterization of Real-World General Intelligence Having defined what we mean by an agent acting in an environment, we now turn to the question of what it means for such an agent t...

XI JINPING, CHINA AND THE GLOBAL ORDER: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHINA’S 2018 CENTRAL FOREIGN POLICY WORK CONFERENCE THE HON. KEVIN RUDD 26 TH PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA PRESIDENT OF THE ASIA SOCIETY POLICY INSTITUTE, NEW YORK AN ADDRESS TO THE LEE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY N...

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… world with problems that are too great for any state to take on alone, effective leadership must come from the centre. Central players mobilise others and create the conditions and coalitions for action – just as President Barack Obama described America’s role in this conflict....

…longer-reaching impact. The context of the 19th CPC National Congress is the grand vision for Chi- na presented by CPC Central Committee Gen- eral Secretary Xi Jinping, who is now the “core” of “the CPC Central Com- mittee and of the whole Party” It is an epic narra- tive of wha...