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Published Letters: 3     Editor's Choice: 1

  • Tâtonnement

    [Read the article: War and peace and trade]
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    Just a small quibble: tâtonnement in this context would be described more accurately as "trial and error", here refering to the market's "groping" or "creeping" in an informal manner toward equilibrium.

    Saturday, December 15, 2007 04:13 AM

  • Great post.

    [Read the article: Simone de Beauvoir celebrated for naked body, other stuff]
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    Thanks!

    Wednesday, February 27, 2008 01:10 PM

  • Filtering O'Hanlon

    [Read the article: The Politico claims the Iraq war will help McCain]
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    O'Hanlon's statement: "How could Democrats possibly hand McCain a better issue than to let him run on his record of advocating a robust U.S. presence in Iraq with all the positive battlefield news that is filtering out of that country?" does, surprisingly, contain an element of truth. This revolves around his revealing use of the operative word "filtering". He is correct, there is positive news coming out of Iraq -- but that is only because all other, non-positive news is filtered out.

    Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:39 AM

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