US financial showdown with Russia is more dangerous than it looks, for both sides
The US Treasury faces a more formidable prey with Russia, the world's biggest producer of energy with a $2 trillion economy, superb scientists and a first-strike nuclear arsenal
By Niraj Chokshi July 21, 2017
New York Times
The video was shocking in Florida, where shocking videos seem like a genre. A group of teenagers laughed and watched as a man struggled in the water of a pond. The man drowned, and his body was not found for days.
Staff sergeant is given a three-year prison term. Others in his unit are accused in slayings.
Indonesia still mired in wreckage of Asia’s financial crisis of 1997
By Alan Sipress: The Washington Post; April 25, 2004
BY Anthony Faiola Aug.7, 2002: The Washington Post
Academic economists often cite Stein's Law, a principle enunciated by the late Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Nixon administration.