The BBC reports that a mayor in Russia has gotten tired of bureaucratic buck passing and to put a stop to it, has banned the use of certain phrases, like “Somebody else has the documents.” While some of the now-verboten excuses are peculiar to civil service (“The working day is over”), others are popular in […]
Read more...The media is typically kind to newly-elected leaders, so now it’s Sarkozy who is getting favorable press treatment. And when we say “burnishing image,” we mean it literally. From the BBC: The French magazine Paris Match touched up a photograph of President Nicolas Sarkozy on his US holiday, making his figure more svelte. Leading news […]
Read more...Aah, there is so much good stuff out there that I can’t begin to do it justice. Hopefully you will enjoy these items: VoxEU features a very good international study on the gender income gap. The Boston Globe tells us that negotiating courses don’t address the fact that people lie. APEC is set to issue […]
Read more...This is quite a departure from the usual subject matter of this blog, but it was such a bizarre story that I had to pass it along. And I suppose it can be regarded as a public service warning: if you must have an exotic pet, make sure it’s the sort that doesn’t grow up […]
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