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more bad news for the weinstein company boss. the embattled movie grower had wanted to move the show from bravo to lifetime, which was prepared to remunerate more for the immunity of showing the hit fashion contest. but a arbitrate has ruled in favor of bravo’s holder, nbc ubiquitous. so weinstein—who had wanted to exploit drab lifetime’s desire to be deliberate and subsidize his other more troubled businesses—is stuck.

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The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918

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Economists generally agree that a system of transparent and secure property rights is beneficial for growth and development. A large literature emphasizes the role of property rights in spurring long-term investments, improving productivity, changing labor allocations, and increasing access to formal sources of credit. This paper describes U.S. attempts to implement property rights reforms in the Philippines in the early twentieth century. Iyer and Maurer document that, two decades after the arrival of the Americans, property rights in the Philippines had become unambiguously less secure, and that political and budgetary constraints played a large role in inhibiting the progress of reforms. Key concepts include:

Abstract

We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th century: the redistribution of large estates to their tenants, the creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During the first phase of American occupation (1898-1918), we find that the progress of implementing these reforms was very slow. As a consequence, tenure insecurity increased over this period, and the distribution of farm sizes remained extremely unequal. We identify two primary causes for the slow progress of reform: first, the high cost of implementing these programs was a major factor in reducing take-up. On the other hand, the government was reluctant to evict delinquent or informal cultivators, especially on public lands. This reduced the costs of tenure insecurity. Political constraints prevented the government from subsidizing land reforms to a greater degree.

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Mom on the Street: How melamine-tainted candy will change buyer behavior

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sarah gilbert is a former investment banker, wharton mba, and mama of three boyish boys. she keeps her finger on the pulse of hundreds of get a bang-minded mamas through social media and reports on the mood of the biggest consumer group ended there: moms.it was the midway of the night when i commencement heard the dope about melamine-tainted powdered tap sickening and killing chinese babies. i was up with my youngest, who was teething, and listening to bbc. as the sundown wore on, it seemed that the numbers kept growing. many, too diverse. outrageously many. i comforted myself, remembering that those thousands who were sick may be mildly baleful, in a contamination ball game even comparable-seeming symptoms are blamed throughout the poison. but this is china, not noted for its transparency. dialect mayhap the numbers were distance off higher. i shuddered, clenched my teeth, pleased my newborn never had powdered milk, glad i didn’t breathe in china, sad for all those who were tossing and turning with a fatal fright.today’s news that white rabbit creamy candies, a popular chinese candy sold in asian markets in the u.s., were tainted with unacceptably high levels of melamine was not surprising. why should candy be any more carefully screened than babies’ exploit? but it was devastating to millions of moms. it’s hard passably for us to trust corporations with our kids’ health; after all, the past 50 years hasn’t exactly been bestowal-winning. sky-rocketing obesity rates. colossal rises in childhood diabetes and heart disease. the as-yet un-attributed upswing in autism. someone’s to blame.

Now, we’ll be checking labels ever-closer. Honestly, anything that’s made in China was already suspect; now, if it’s got a chance at going near my kids’ mouths, it’s absolutely forbidden. “What isn’t tainted out of China?” a friend in Chicago asked, writing about police cars and sunflower seeds.It hurts deep down that so many kids’ health had to be sacrificed for corporate profit. And while I’m thinking of the out-and-out obvious poisoning in China, I start wondering more about FDA-approved corporations here in the U.S. We all agree that trans-fatty acids, for instance, are awful for our health; but instead of pulling all partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, big food companies come up with more creative ways to chemically alter substances so they’re not quite 1 gram of trans-fatty acids per serving and can register as “zero.” Aren’t these just far more subtle instances of giving up our kids’ health for corporate profit? How about the excess of processed sweeteners in everything marketed to children? We know sugar screws with the body’s natural chemistry, causing people to eat more of it than they really need. And we wonder why kids are obese.Melamine-tainted candy is the tip of the iceberg. It’s just one more push down that slippery slope, at the end of which the vast majority of moms are going to reject corporate food altogether and return to the ways of our great-grandmothers. In my community, more and more women are learning to bake bread, grow vegetables, keep chickens in our backyards. If I could describe to you the diversity of women who are right this minute engaged in canning organic local tomatoes so their kids can avoid BPA in the coating to commercial canned tomatoes all winter and spring long, well, you’d probably be gobsmacked.We haven’t, collectively, had enough yet. But keep pushing us, and you’ll see exactly what we can do.

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Sarah Palin Attends First Town Hall

The New York Times‘s Michael Cooper reports on Sarah Palin’s first town hall appearance, which took place in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Some excerpts:

As she took questions from voters for the first time since she was tapped as Senator John McCainâs running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin was asked here Wednesday about her â?perceived lack of foreign policy experience.ââ

She responded with an invitation for people to play â?stump the candidate❠with her.

â?As for foreign policy, you know, I think that I am prepared,ââ Ms. Palin said at an enthusiastic town-hall-style meeting she held alongside Mr. McCain. â?And I know that on Jan. 20, if we are so blessed as to be sworn into office as your president and vice president, certainly weâll be ready. Iâll be ready. I have that confidence. I have that readiness. And if you want specifics with specific policy, or countries, go ahead and you can ask me. You can even play stump the candidate, if you want to.ââ

But before anyone could take her up on the offer, Mr. McCain stepped in to praise Ms. Palinâs qualifications, saying that she understands energy issues, had led negotiations for a new gas pipeline, and, as governor of Alaska, was the commander of the Alaska National Guard. â?So I think she understands our national security challenges,ââ he said. …

Governor Palin showed herself to be a crowd-pleaser, and it was clear that she and Mr. McCain â” who had only met once before offering her a spot on the ticket â” have begun to develop an easy rapport. (She no longer called him â?Senator John S. McCain,❠as she sometimes did right after she was picked, calling him â?John.ââ) Ms. Palin highlighted her breezy style, as with her remark that energy independence was â?going to be my baby❠in a McCain administration, but sometimes seemed less sure-footed on other issues. …

Ms. Palin got her biggest cheer of the night when a woman who identified herself as a mother asked her to rebut the false suggestion that she would have difficulty balancing her role as a mother with being vice president.

â?Well, letâs prove them wrong!❠Mr. Palin said, to huge applause.

â?I was pregnant when I was the governor and they asked how are you going to be their governor and have a baby in office?ââ she elaborated. â?And I said, âThe same way that every other governor has brought up a family, had a baby in office.â Granted they were men, maybe that was the difference. But weâre going to be able to do it.ââ

â?Thank you so much for recognizing though, that this is the maverick who would have even chosen such a candidate to partner up,ââ Ms. Palin said, â?and this is the party that embraces the change and the progress that America and American women are craving and deserving.ââ

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The People’s Business

We’re policy wonks, right? So we have beliefs about what goes into policy making, what sound decisions require, and what constitutes good preparation to govern. Which is why I was disappointed to see Tod Lindberg — a friend and a duly credentialed specialist on the other side of the political spectrum — parroting flimsy talking points on Barack Obama and Sarah Palin’s relative qualifications for high office:

Let’s get this straight: Your party has just nominated for president a fellow who has been elected exactly once to the United States Senate, in an uncompetitive race, following a garden-variety stint in a state legislature. And your response to the GOP nominee’s choice for vice president–someone who has been elected once as governor following a stint as a small town mayor–is to decry the lack of experience?

What we have here is resume math of the crudest kind: Obama and Palin have roughly the same years of service as elected officials. The factor that’s missing from Tod’s calculation, of course, is how those years were spent, i.e. the content of their preparation. In foreign policy terms, Tod must be applying a deep discount to service on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The entire exercise is obviously not terribly meaningful, which is why I was surprised to see Tod conducting it. Among other things, this approach doesn’t grant much credit to the effort Tod himself has invested in developing his expertise.

Luckily, we have David Brooks to referee this dispute. Brooks reminds us of the anti-intellectual tradition in American populism. As he describes this view: “book knowledge is suspect but practical knowledge is respected. The city is corrupting and the universities are kindergartens for overeducated fools.” The really interesting thing, though, was to see where Brooks himself comes down on the issue:

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I would have more sympathy for this view if I hadn’t just lived through the last eight years. For if the Bush administration was anything, it was the anti-establishment attitude put into executive practice.

And the problem with this attitude is that, especially in his first term, it made Bush inept at governance. It turns out that governance, the creation and execution of policy, is hard. It requires acquired skills.

Personally, the last eight years has taught me the urgent need to reconnect the voting public with the debate over American foreign policy. I believe wholeheartedly in the capacity of voters to understand and give the mandate for the major issues of the US role in the world. I have spent much of the last four years here in “flyover country” talking about these issues with anyone who’s willing, in small cities and small towns. I’ve also devoted many posts on this blog to affirming many of the public’s common sense instincts on foreign policy.

But as David Brooks says, governing is actually serious business. And no, Tod, only after he or she has done her homework, can any American boy or girl, as the old saying goes, “grow up to be president.”

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Saints blank Trojans

Tuscarawas Central Catholic coach Bob Zontini has been around long enough to know that it’s the basic things that win football games.“When we pass and catch, we’re OK,” he said after watching his team do enough of both for a 28-0 win over  Newcomerstown at the Ary Teynor Complex on Saturday. “We did a little bit of everything today, but we still need to be able to run the ball better.”The Saints scored two early touchdowns and never let the Trojans back in the game in the Inter-Valley Conference opener for each team.Central improves to 1-0 in league play and 2-2 overall.Newcomerstown is 0-1, 0-4.Central set the tone early, driving 69 yards for a touchdown on their very first drive.Newcomerstown came up with an interception on the Saints’ second possession, but the third saw Central take a 14-0 lead with 5:20 to play in the opening quarter.Tommy Sampsel had the scoring honors on both drives, going in from the 3 each time. Brendon Demuth added the PATs.The Saints added a passing score in the third quarter and scored on a blocked punt to close things out.“Any time you get a shutout you have to be happy,” Zontini said. “We got some turnovers and blocked a punt, but we got to play a lot of people today.“For most of the game, we had five sophomores out there on the line. Those guys are all learning and they’ll be back for two years.”Newcomerstown’s offense never really got things going. Starting quarterback Caleb Rankin went down with an injury and sophomore Tyler Craigo played most of the second half. The two combined to pass for just 58 yards and were under heavy pressure when they were throwing.The Trojans made it past midfield just once in the first half, getting as close as the Central 23, but back-to-back sacks moved the ball back to the 42 just before the clock ran out.Newcomerstown threatened again in the fourth quarter, getting as close as Central’s 10, but Thorn Deetz stripped the ball from a Newcomerstown tailback and Cruz Fondriest recovered.The Saints got one first down and ran out the clock.“Turnovers killed us,” said Trojan coach Eric Brock, whose team has not scored since the second quarter of the season opener against Indian Valley. “We practice hard all week, but then we get tight. At some point, we’re going to have to stand up and just go out and play football.”Central put up another score midway through the third quarter when Joe Lawless threw a scoring pass to Zach Haberman.They got another score nearly three minutes later when Drew Keller blocked a punt by Newcomerstown’s Matt Ayres. Ryan Robie scooped it up and returned it 40 yards for a score.Lawless passed to Tyler Sunderlin for a two-point conversion that accounted for the final score.Josh Miller had the most success by Newcomerstown’s offense. He had 14 carries for 61 yards, but the Trojans got little else going.George Clore, who also played a solid defensive game, led the Saints with 37 yards on the ground, while Lawless passed for 164 yards.  

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Is This the Dirtiest Flat in Britain?

By STEPHEN WEBB, ABC News London

When you get home after a long hard day at work you might be tempted to leave the cleaning until tomorrow. You might decide you are too tired to cook and order takeout. If you did this every day, your home might look something like this.

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Chris Dowling, 57, was stunned when he found out that the $175,500 apartment he had rented out to a single man for about two years had been turned into a garbage dump.

There were more than 1,000 takeout boxes dumped in the apartment’s living area, despite its being only 15 feet by 11 feet. It is estimated that the man had eaten his way through $8,800 worth of McDonald’s, pizzas and other fast food.

In the bathroom, hundreds of cigarette stubs were stacked up alongside the the tenant’s toothbrush and razor.

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Although Dowling, the owner of the property, had never met his tenant, the $800 monthly rent had always been paid on time, so he didn’t expect to have to send in an army of cleaners when the lease ended.

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“There were McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken containers everywhere. I couldn’t get through to get to the kitchen and they were stacked all around the bed. You couldn’t see any part of the floor in the living area,” Dowling told KNS News.

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“The tenant had been smoking without opening windows and there were nicotine stains dripping from the walls. It smelt like a giant ashtray.”

Dowling rented the apartment in Slough in southeastern England to the man in December 2005, but a few months ago he was contacted by the local council because the tenant hadn’t paid his council tax.

After attempts to get in touch with the man failed, bailiffs were sent round who found the apartment in a “disgusting” state. Dowling tried to enter the property but the man had changed the locks. Soon after that, the tenant moved out, leaving the keys with the rental agency.

Dowling, who owns 46 homes, said: “It hasn’t put me off renting places out. I will just take the hit and carry on.”

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