Results for “Long Now Foundation”

…ealists and the idealists are wrong about the Arab Revolution. The realists are wrong that despotic regimes can provide long term stability in the region; the idealists are wrong that the fall of the old despots will lead to liberal democratic states. Americans have been getting...

SECTION 4 Universities American universities have long played a leading role in relations between the United States and China. Ever since the Carter administration first explored the possibility with Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese counterparts of sending Chinese students to th...

…sing?” That theme continues at “American Tantra: How to Worship Each Other in Bed,” This workshop—whose motto, “Orgasm long and prosper,” paraphrases Star Trek’ s blessing, “Live long and prosper” —is conducted by Paul Ramana Das and Marilena Silbey. “Interspecies intercourse,”...

Not so long ago, Bannon might have been a recognizably modern figure, something of a romantic antihero, an ex-military and up-from-the-working-class guy, striving, through multiple marriages and various careers, to make it, but never finding much comfort in the establishment worl...

56 Japan. It first had to find technicians willing to go to Japan. Since Snowden had a long-time interest in going to Japan, he was more than willing to relocate to Japan. He had little problem obtaining the job. Aside from his family connections, he had a single compelling qua...

…oric Oslo Accords in 1993, won a Tony for Best Play on Broadway this year, and has already virtually sold out its month-long run at the National. Such is the demand that the production, starring Toby Stephens, promptly transfers to the West End in October. Oslo dramatises a peri...

…ocal outsourcing, could help streamline USA Inc.’s operations. e Options for increasing revenue by focusing on driving long-term GDP growth and changing tax policies - USA Inc. should examine ways to invest in growth that provides a high return (ROI) via new investment in tech...

… that the state will ensure security against social disorder and innumerable harms, and will intervene in risk creation long before manifest criminal conduct or injury. © That agenda requires capacity, resources, and expertise that only public agencies can marshal. Moreover, a cr...

…s wile, perately needed an organ transp operation. “That's just typical,” Grossberg says. “That's who he always was, long as I knew him.” “Lafayette was a city school,” says another old classmate, James “It was functional. There was nothing special about it.” James Rosen is...

…p Forward or the Cultural Revolution, these and other aspects of the party's past were not considered utterly taboo, as long as the discussion did not lead to serious challenges to orthodox historical interpretations. According to the policies set down under Xi Jinping’s leadersh...

… a more immediate game than he ever played it.” Trump was, for Bannon, a modern-day William Jennings Bryan. (Bannon had long talked about the need for a new Williams Jennings Bryan in right-wing politics, with friends assuming Bannon meant himself.) At the turn of the twentieth c...

…d and the formation of the judgment. — PAUL FUSSELL, Abroad The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research. —ROLF POTTS, Vagabonding U,. Sherwood’s return from Oktoberfest, dazed from killing neurons but the happiest he’s been in four years,...

…in the post-WWII period. Yet we continue to recommend staying the course. We are duly aware that this recommendation is long in the tooth, particularly given such high valuations and the unusually high level of policy uncertainty. Policy uncertainty, both economic and political,...

…ituation into its vision of what it viewed as a commercial trafficking ring targeting minors. This was anything but. At long last, the federal authorities acknowledged that stark reality and grudgingly agreed to defer prosecution to the state. But there was a huge catch. In the f...

…he same time, it would offer even more attractive opportunities within distressed strategies and lower entry prices for long-term private equity investors. Note: Scenarios refer to global economic scenarios (see slide 7) What we're watching Why it matters Credit markets In H1 2...