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The Harvard Business School professor has an alternative to socialized medicine.
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The Harvard Business School professor talks about his disruptive solution to healthcare.
Anyone in need of a moment’s release from our collective recession depression should check out of this piece in today’s Telegraph, which previews some revolutionary new consumer technologies on the […]
Perhaps the most sobering economic article in Sunday’s Times,among much sobering financial section news, was not an article at all. On page A21 a full-page warning, superimposed over the image […]
Bill Brown, a visiting professor of the practice of law at Duke University, says the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 is the best model for getting America out of […]
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Author Alaa Al Aswany says problems in Egypt arose with Israel, not with the Jews.
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Alaa Al Aswany on the culture of myopia.
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Alaa Al Aswany sees the potential for democracy across the entire Arab world.
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A negative interpretation of Islam adds to the forces against tolerance Alaa Al Aswany believes.
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If we just understood that we are all human beings first and foremost, we would not be witnessing many of the struggles we are seeing today.
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How a writer captures the human element will determine how long a piece of literature will last.
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All writers have to find their own rhythm, but Alaa Al Aswany finds his between 6 and 10:30 am.
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Alaa Al Aswany explains how a University of Illinois Histology department becomes a microcosm for the world.
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Alaa Al Aswany reveals the key to translating literature into other languages.
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Young Alaa As Aswany’s “garden full of flowers” had Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Marquez and Hemingway growing in it.
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Alaa Al Aswany talks about the impossibility of making a living as a writer in Egypt.
When the death toll reached 1,000 in the latest Israel-Palestine exchange, it made frontpage international headlines. Now that 900 people have been killed in the Congoas a result of a botched […]
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Tom Perrotta talks about never getting around to reading what he should.
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Tom Perrotta debunks the maxim of always writing what you know.
