The recent very warm weather in South Hadley has made grading very difficult. But that’s the least of my worries about the weather. The World Meteorological Organization has just issued its climate change report for 2011 and it’s a very sobering report. We are, quite literally, sowing the wind.
Writing a constitution is an extraordinarily difficult process, and the process in Egypt has been fraught with all sorts of complications. Balancing the interests of the majority with the rights of minorities is difficult enough in practice; trying to balance those interests in the abstract is significantly more complicated when everyone involved is aware of all the possible pitfalls.
Looking for economic data about the US? Go to FRED, the data site for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The site is well-organized and absolutely loaded with arcane information.
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