To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

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Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important Book lovers...

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important Book lovers...

My Book and Heart Must never part

My Book and Heart Must never part

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a...

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a...

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure...

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure...

The language of economics is seldom limpid, but in H Street they usually manage to...

The language of economics is seldom limpid, but in H Street they usually manage to...

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at...

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at...

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the...

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the...

When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation...

When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation...

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the...

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the...

We did it [Disneyland], in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to...

We did it [Disneyland], in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to...

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy...

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy...

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be...

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be...

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it...

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it...

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with...

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with...

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our...

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our...

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt...

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt...

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it...

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it...