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… AND ITALIANS Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. — ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY, pioneer of international postal flight and author of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. — WILLIAM OF OCCA...

Response "That's because it isn't, and everyone here (apparently save one) is rational and objective enough to understand that. Physical phenomena, and phenomena in general, are ultimately perceptual in nature and subject to observational replication - that's why they call phys...

…u have a black and white book. It is an irrelevant question to ask if my red is the same as yours, since my red against one background is not even the same as my red against another. People generally agree on naming colors but not all languages have the eleven specifically named...

…John Connolly. He seems very interested in your relationship with the news media. I told him you were a hell of a guy:) One oddity: he said he had been told that that quote from Trump about you in the original NY Mag story had been manufactured. ie, that I did not actually speak...

…ple, the requirement for many investment advisers to register with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), one of the requirements of The Dodd—Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd Frank”) which was signed into federal law by President Obama to...

…an officials in Hong Kong would have informed him, Russia had no extradition treaty with the United States. It was also one of the few places in the world that he could reach from Hong Kong without flying through airspace in which he might be intercepted by a U.S. ally. Snowden w...

…e'!l1 get a copy to the court reporter, too, to attach, actually a certified copy to the deposition. MR. GOLDBERGER: Done. MR. LEOPOLD: That's if you agree to that. If not, then | want to pull each one out and put exhibit labels on them, which we should do before we leave. MR...

…e of the United States policy permits attorneys of record and parties in a case (including pro se litigants) to receive one free electronic copy of all documents filed electronically, if receipt is required by law or directed by the filer. PACER access fees apply to all other use...

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… threats from enemies for whom talk was not even an option. An increasingly assertive Iran, with nuclear ambitions, was one. But the intifada had also thrown up new Palestinian groups grounded not in nationalism, but fundamentalist Islam: Hamas in Gaza, which opposed Israel’s pre...

…he United States. The CIA accepted his offer, and through this archive of secrets he had previously compiled, he became one of the CIA’s most productive sources in the Cold War. The job of an intelligence service is to take advantage of whatever opportunities come its way in the...

RLK: Fourth is technology transfer. And then government support of new technologies. The last is the most sensitive one. HOST: Robert Lawrence Kuhn, we're going to have to leave it there. Lots to talk about. We do appreciate your time. Ft CHINA-US TRADE WAR Trump: Tariffs in r...

…of nuclear, biological, or cyberterrorism goad government security agencies into measures such as hoovering up mobile phone metadata, but these ineffectual measures, more theater than oppression, have had no significant effect on either security or freedom. Ironically, tech proph...

…relationship. Support our troops, indeed! McCain’ s idea of supporting the troops is to send them more antidepressants--one out of every eight is already on them--so they can go kick down doors and kill people but still feel good about it. Oh, yes, and Sarah, we must not forget h...

… have shot at least three soldiers on the spot for "disobedience." "These were cold-blooded executions in the street," one source tells me. "The soldiers had refused to fire on marchers. They were killed by men from the Alawite minority to which Assad belongs." Two of the three...