The book, Free Ride, by Robert Levine, is worth singling out, because it addresses how the culture business can fight back.

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When Robert Levine of California State University in Fresno tried to measure the speed of life in different countries some years ago, Germany proved the third-fastest (behind Switzerland and Ireland).

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Also there were: Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, former congressmen Robert Wexler and Mel Levine, former ambassador Ron Lauder, Democratic strategist Steve Rabinowitz and Rabbi Marvin Heir, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, according to one of the sources.

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