spoke to them. and you spoke to them, why? because we were attempting to find out a were there any names in play and b once we could get a name like this. was there any way we could find any social media or other things that might lead us to believe that he left a suicide note or he did one of the other indicators after jihadist attack. they are prone to doing those final video episodes. when you heard the name faruq saeed? did you run him down or check him out? like i said it s a common enough name that no one i m aware of has yet come to a definitive answer. at this point it s only a name that was heard over the police scanner. it has not been confirmed. perhaps at the press conference they might do that. everybody is trying to find out whether this is a domestic terrorism like charleston, south carolina, where just in a rational crazy person goes in and shoots up a church full of people or, whether it s islamic terrorism because then the story becomes
government this week? i ll explain. first, here s my take. if you are trying to understand the recent protests against the putin regime in russia, one of the best guides is an outspoken columnist that s been writing essays in the nation s leading newspapers over the past month. political competition is the heart beat of democracy. this author writes noting the absence of such competition in contemporary russia. he describes the frustrations of the russian middle class, demanding political rights. today the quality of our state does not match civil society s readiness to participate in it. on corruption, perhaps the issue that most riles the public, the problem is scathing. it s from the lack of transparency and accountability of government, he says. now, what makes this all deeply strange is that the author of these essays is vladimir putin, the architect, builder, and chief enforcer of the system that he is critiquing. putin seems to understand russia s problems better tha
neil ferguson, kishor and wada. also, how in the world did one of the world s greatest sellers in the global bazaar lose its mojo? i ll explain. first, here s my take. president obama spoke forcefully in his state of the union about the importance of reviving manufacturing in america. if you talk with economists, they ll tell you it s a very complex problem involving tacks, trade, regulatory policy, exchange rates, educational skills. it is all those things, but when you move from high level policy to specific cases, you will often find within element that is rarely talked about. a government s role in boosting its domestic manufacturers. in a front page story last week, the new york times detailed how apple s iphone ended up being made outside america. the times wrote about the apple executives who visited a factory in china to see if it could cut the glass precisely for the phone s touchdown screen. when the apple team got there, the factory owners were already construc