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First, it contends that the conventional justifications for regulating corporate interventions in politics -- that corporate donations unnaturally skew the political discourse (bad politics) and that corporate political donations harm shareholders (agency costs) -- assume irrational investors and..

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To many Russian Jews, the murder of Nemtsov — a physicist turned liberal politician, born to a Jewish mother but baptized in the Orthodox Church — is a troubling reminder of vulnerability as members of a relatively affluent minority with a history of being scapegoated, strong ties to the West and..

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The most notable example was President Gerald Ford’s Team B project, launched in May 1976, to challenge the conventional intelligence community assessments of the Soviet threat. ... Reagan turned out, of course, to be right, while the conventional wisdom of economists and intellectuals,..

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'For a so-called Muslim-majority country to use these same sorts of draconian measures to imprison and convict in kangaroo courts people who challenge the conventional wisdom of the status quo, the irony is pretty astounding,' he added. .   .   .   .   .   . . . . . . . ..

the true history of charlemagne

“As a first step, it [Germany] should take greater responsibility for Eastern Europe’s military security by deploying more European—and more German—conventional troops in these countries,” he wrote. ..

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