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The deaths of Somoza 

Don't think I believe the people erected this statue to me because I know better than you that I commissioned it myself. Nor do I pretend to pass...

Highway 1 

Highway 1 Highway 1 A snowy egret on the salt marsh dips and shakes its golden foot with black onyx claws, luring a meal, stirring the...

Girls in the Trees 

Girls in the Trees Girls in the Trees The onus is upon us to believe in nothing, and that religion, like all religions, happens with...

The British army in India 

Sahib: The British Soldier in India. Richard Holmes. HarperCollins. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxxiii + 572 pages. ISBN 0-00-713753-2. Sahib: The...

PERFORMANCE COMPENSATION CONTRACTS AND CEOS' INCENTIVE TO SHIFT RISK TO DEBTHOLDERS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS 

Abstract The paper investigates the relationships among CEO incentive contracts, manager ownership, charter value, and bank risk taking. We...

Tide of Grief 

If, on the Sunday morning after Christmas, you had been like some all-seeing, all-knowing deity, able to peer down through the ocean depths off the...

Propaganda and the free press 

Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits from Propaganda. Roy Greenslade. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]30.00. 787 pages. ISBN 0-333-78311-5. Press...

Policy interaction, expectations, and the liquidity trap 

Witnessing Iraq's last revolution 

IRAQ, broken by war, revolution and the military despots who have ruled it since the overthrow of the monarchy forty-five years ago, faces an...

Cudlipp and King: Tyrants of Fleet Street - Book Review 

Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street. Ruth Dudley Edwards. Secker & Warburg. 20.00 [pounds...