Egoyan aims his restrained camera at a small Adirondack community that's suffering an answer to that riddle on a grand scale.

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His answer to that riddle has been to accuse Clinton and Vice President Al Gore of squandering the opportunity these good times offer to tackle fundamental long-term problems.

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We are still fishing for the answer to that riddle.

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The 21st-century answer to this 18th-century riddle is that a species is what a taxonomist says it is.

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The answer to the riddle might lie in an innovation that has often been touted as a saviour of modern American capitalism, but could yet turn out to be a false prophet: share options.

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