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Last week saw an interesting and eclectic selection of DVD’s enter my domain. This is just a small taste. Let me start by asking a question. What do Ringo Starr (yes that one), Dustin Hoffman and Harry Nilsson have in common? The answer is that at first sight not very much. The story goes all […]
BBG Watch Commentary Kristina Gorelik (КриÑтина Горелик), fired last September by American taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) along with dozens of her colleagues, has received today the Moscow Helsinki Group prize for “journalistic activity aimed at promoting human rights values.”  The prize was presented on the International Human Rights Day, December 10. At Radio […]
Lise Olsen’s 11/27 article in the San Antonio Express News misleads legislators and readers regarding payday loans (PDLs). Olsen and legislators should ask, “Why do people use these products when it is seemingly so expensiveâ€? The facile answer: borrowers are stupid and make costly mistakes, resulting in the alleged “cycle of debtâ€. Yet people don’t […]
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