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Bourse 24 French Bourse24 English Gouvernance d’entrepriseMercredi 17 fevrier 2010, l’émission quotidienne ,L’heure des comptes,de Radio Canada m’a interrogé sur le bilan du plan de relance américain après une année. Pour écouter cette entrevue cliquez ici.
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The Lost Symbol arrived last night and turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. What the book gained in thickness it lost in tautness .Much of the plot’s main « surprise » can be guessed after the first few chapters. Set in a Washington DC awash with Masonic symbolism one cannot help but be reminded [...]
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Hier soir nous dînions avec des amis en Périgord. L’une des convives commence une phrase en disant « Par contre » et se fait reprendre par notre ami belge Yves au motif qu’il s’agit d’une expression provenant du français belge et non pas du bon français. Interloqué ,je lui demande de préciser et il nous dit que [...]
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Paul Krugman,ever the populist,has now jumped into the Hall fray ( read Rewarding Bad Actors NYT Aug.2,2009 ).In his editorial,Professor Krugman fires a broadside against Goldman Sachs’high frequency derived profits and against Mr.Hall.Arguendo,one might find high frequency trading to be reprehensible because those with higher speed computers are said to have an unfair advantage [...]
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On July 27,2009,I posted a note ( below: Rémunération des cadres bancaires : les $100 millions d’Andrew Hall ) on the debate raging around Andrew Hall’s right to a $ 100 million bonus,the topic now of David Segal’s front page article in Sunday’s New York Times ( August 2,2009) .In my note I stated that [...]
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Les vacances sont pour nos compatriotes l’occasion de souffler un peu,de décompresser,en un mot de ne plus courrir comme ils se sentent obligés de le faire chaque jour durant le reste de l’anné.Courrir, comme l’a si bien fait ressortir Raymond Devos avec son humour habituel,suscite des questions dont la moindre n’est pas ù courrent-ils? [...]
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As Congress starts debating the Obama health care plan, an incursion into history may be in order. Years ago, in 1961,the Democrats proposed a form of socialized medicine. Concerned citizens mounted Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine and then private citizen Ronald Reagan spoke out ( here) against socialized medicine in terms that all [...]
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Dans l’essai « Tolérance, révérence et dhimmitude »,que vous trouverez dans la section Op Ed de ce journal, j’ai tenté´de répondre à la question : le monde musulman est-il capable de traiter le monde non-musulman avec un respect mutuel. Le discours prononcé à la mosquée Al-Hussein bin Talal d’Amman le 9mai par Sa Sainteté le Pape Benoît [...]
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In my essay « Tolerance, reverence and dhimmitude » ,see below,I examined whether the Muslim world is capable of dealing with non-Muslims with « mutual respect ». The Pope’s speech today at the Al Hussein bin Talal mosque in Amman, Jordan, reproduced below, is brilliant and deeply perceptive in the points he makes. The ball is now squarely in [...]
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On Sunday May 9, 2009 the BBC Forum (listen here) convened Lord Robert May, former scientific adviser to the British government, Gillian Tett, financial analyst and social anthropologist, and Abraham Verghese, doctor and author. Lord May showed how a very simple equation can be used to create a situation of chaos. His analysis, applicable to [...]
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Interested in the differences between American and British usage? If yes ,then do read Roger Cohen’s delightful piece « Of Loos and Language ».Several years ago, Lynn Truss, the former host of the BBC Radio 4’s Cutting a Dash programme published an equally delightful book:Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation whose title [...]
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During his trip to Europe,President Obama stated on several occasions [1]that his policy towards the Muslim world was going to be based on « mutual respect » going so far as to state in his speech to the European Parliament that he was going to show respect by « changing our language and our tone » in our [...]
Archivé sous: Droit Law, Editorial, Editorials, English version, Histoire History, History, Law, Opinions | Tagué : Coran, dhimmi, dhimmitude, Ibn Khaldun, Islam, Koran, Mawardi, Muslim, mutual respect, Tafsir Ibn Kathir, tolerance, toleration | 1 commentaire »
Les élections à l’Assemblée des Français de l’Etranger (AFE) semblent susciter des convoitises bien mises en relief dans le récent article de French Morning intitulé : « Embouteillage pour l’Assemblée des Français de l’étranger » qu’un de mes amis banquier a eu la gentilesse de me signaler.A lire, en particulier les commentaires de Mme Nike!
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The editorial by Tawfik Hamid in the Wall Street Journal deserves serious consideration for the questions it raises.Like Mr Hamid one cannot help but be disappointed by the British denial of an entry visa to Mr Geert Wilders,the member of the Dutch parliament whose film « Fitna » caused an uproar in circles where criticism of Islam [...]
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The political discourse is tilting towards « taxing the rich » to pay for the electoral promises.Today’s editorial in the Wall Street Journal elegantly demonstrates the fallacy of the « tax the rich » premise by showing that even if the so-called « rich » were taxed at the rate of 100%,effectively leaving them nothing,then the amount raised would still not [...]
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