In the Times blog, Ayres goes so far as to say that he and Macey saw it all coming.

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David Macey's life of Fanon provides, as background, an excellent guide to the history of French decolonisation and the intellectual debates of post-war France.

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Twelve additional organizations, including the National Association of Home Builders and the American Society of Travel Agents, have already joined the coalition, and representatives from 50 groups have attended its meetings, reports co-chair Macey Davis, tax counsel for the NFIB.

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Yale Law School professor Ian Ayres has posted both a blog article at The New York Times and an opinion piece at Politico, cowritten with his fellow professor Jonathan Macey, arguing convincingly that the rise of entrepreneurship in Egypt opened the way to the wave of change that has just swept that nation.

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