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The great, unreported story in globalization is about power, not ideology. It's about how finance and business regularly, continuously insert their own self-interested deals and exceptions into rules and agreements that are then announced to the public as "free trade."


William Greider

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WILLIAM FAULKNER When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE