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Archive for July 22nd, 2008
Obama, the Optimist on Trade
Today’s Financial Times offers commentary by Susan Aaronson, a scholar who analyzes the murky relationships between trade and human rights. In it she poses the question: if both candidates are pro-trade, what else will they do with their policies? Around the world, the press has portrayed the 2008 US presidential election as a choice between [...]
Cat Urine or Black-Currant Buds?
Joshua M. Bernstein of Gourmet recently did a Q&A with Charles Bamforth, touching on something that I find to be among the “funny-because-it’s-true” characteristics of wine and beer. JMB: How else do wine makers and brewers differ? CB: Brewers tend to use unappealing terms like catty, grainy and burnt, while wine guys tend to use [...]
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