Rule No. 1: Make Money by Avoiding Rules
By PETER S. GOODMAN
A time-tested axiom of capitalism is that any financial regulation will be followed quickly by innovation that subverts it.
Into Kandahar, Yesterday and Tomorrow
By JOHN F. BURNS
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Kandahar, viewed from a helicopter.
As American forces prepare for a pivotal engagement, a reporter remembers the failures of an earlier time.
Rand Paul and the Perils of Textbook Libertarianism
By SAM TANENHAUS
Rigid ideological consistency is the enemy of practical politics. And therein lies a problem for a darling of the Tea Party.
Résumés Made for Fibbing
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
When it comes to inflating credentials, Richard Blumenthal has a lot of company. In fact, puffery usually begins in childhood.
Pippi Longstocking, With Dragon Tattoo
By PAT RYAN
Stieg Larsson’s darkly kooky antiheroine Lisbeth Salander owes a lot to the 9-year-old troublemaker created by the earlier Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.
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