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effects of voluntary disclosure and dividend propensity on prices leading earnings, The 

Abstract-We investigate the joint effects of dividend propensity (i.e. whether a firm pays cash dividends) and voluntary disclosure on the...

Earnings management or forecast guidance to meet analyst expectations? 

Abstract-We examine whether UK firms engage in earnings management or forecast guidance to ensure that their reported earnings meet analyst...

The Southern Supermen 

For the past two centuries, the path followed by the bulk of world trade saw the raw materials of the developing world flowing to the production...

Wuthering Ike 

Michael Korda, Ike: An American Hero (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 779 pp., $34.95. Michael Korda, Ike: An American Hero (New York:...

Russia v. Europe: the energy wars 

When former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confected his celebrated jibe about the distinction between "Old Europe" and the new, he had in mind...

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Anxiety Disorders/Reply: Clinical Practice Guidelines for Anxiety Disorders 

Dear Editor: The Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of Anxiety Disorders1 is an important and useful document. Nevertheless, it...

No woman, no war.(Letter to the editor) 

The rising Asian gender imbalance to which Martin Walker's "The Geopolitics of Sexual Frustration" (March/April 2006) rightly draws our attention...

The geopolitics of sexual frustration: Asia has too many boys. They can't find wives, but they just might find extreme nationalism instead. It's a dangerous imbalance for a region already on edge. 

The lost boys of Prof. Albert Macovski are upon us. Twenty years ago, the ultrasound scanning machine came into widespread use in Asia. The...

Europe's new narrative 

Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 (Penguin Press: New York, 2005), 964 pp., $39.95. Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe...

Letter: COMMENT & ANALYSIS - Tory truth 

I WRITE to correct an inaccuracy in your report concerning Esther McVey and the reports that she is lined up for a safe Tory seat.

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