Really, who but the most insane audiophile (the type who thinks they can discern frequencies well outside the human range) actually needs one -- especially when they can cost as much as a new laptop?

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It's what makes sports fun: You can passionately make a case about the brilliance of Magic, while the guy in the office across from you thinks Bird was the most clutch player who's ever graced the court.

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Yet beyond these soundbites, little is still known about what the man who might be the next Pentagon chief really thinks about one of the most pressing strategic challenges confronting the United States.

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Ravi Sikund, who has spent most of his career representing Owens Corning and other firms in India, thinks there is money to be made from training Indians to talk like Britons or Americans.

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While some seniors undoubtedly find ways to transfer assets (everyone, it seems, knows someone who has or at least thinks they do), new research paints a very different picture: Most frail seniors and younger people with disabilities who receive Medicaid benefits were poor long before they ended up on program.

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U. for cartel activity in 1997, thinks fining a company like Microsoft 10% of its revenue does little to deter the individual managers who might be most responsible for scrupulous activity, punishing shareholders instead.

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This sort of thing goes on the world over, you may say, but one Portuguese economist who spent many years in an international economic organisation thinks that his country's government is now playing cheekier tricks than most.

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