Mitt Romney is full of praise for Bill Clinton even as he heaps scorn on Obama.
“Almost a generation ago, Bill Clinton announced that the era of big government was over,” says Romney, “Clinton was signaling to his own party that Democrats should no longer try to govern by proposing a new program…
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This magnificent library possesses over 40.000 volumes, which were bound with care and extreme dedication by the monks who lived in this convent since the XVIIIth century, cataloging them in such a precise way, that even today, the head librarian of the Palácio de Mafra uses a ledger where…

Facebook filed for its IPO today, and it revealed a great deal about how it makes money. It’s not too surprising that Facebook said it generates “a substantial majority of our revenue from advertising,” though it also revealed just how much it makes via its partnership with Zynga. Revenue from…
The World Economic Forum offers a unique venue for hashing out innovative new ideas, and this year is no different. Tech folks are wrestling with the problem of “big data,” says the New York Times — i.e., how can they leverage customer information in new ways without running afoul of privacy…
Tomorrow’s cover today: for China’s rise to continue, the country needs to move away from the model that has served it so well.




