Putin s Winning Streak

The Great American Losing Streak

And it was rigged, and it became unraveled when this man, Charles van Doren, was outed after an unnatural winning streak, ending Berry's career.

She hasn't lost an all around competition since the summer of 2013, a winning streak that should go for as long as Biles wants it to.

In fact, entire countries have a built in egalitarian streak. They dislike the business leaders who take home huge sums even when they fail, and they hate to see poor and excluded people in their midst.

This is especially important when it comes to creativity and to productivity, because when psychologists look at the lives of the most creative people, what they find are people who are very good at exchanging ideas and advancing ideas, but who also have a serious streak of introversion in them.

He will also oppose free trade, globalization, immigration, and foreign direct investment, while favoring domestic workers and firms, particularly state owned enterprises and private business and financial groups with ties to those in power. In some cases, outright nativist, racist parties support such government or provide an even deeper authoritarian and anti democratic streak.

LONDON France s new president, François Hollande, has achieved a remarkable series of political victories at home and in Europe since his election in May. Unfortunately, his streak of success will inevitably call forth an economic reckoning that will shock France s apparently unsuspecting citizens and doom the French elite s approach to the construction of Europe.

In the late 1960 s and early 1970 s, Phelps s encounters with Amartya Sen, John Rawls, and Kenneth Arrow at Stanford revived his philosophical streak. He had extremely valuable intellectual conversations with Rawls, prompting him to write several essays on the theory of economic justice and publish a book on the subject in 1974 a book still used today.