Beyond the Magic Bullet: Ngo Performance and Accountability in the Post-Cold War World (Kumarian Press Books on International Development)
Nature (Free subscription) | yesterday
The concept of 'magic bullets' — drugs with high specificity for their target — was introduced by Paul Ehrlich almost 100 years ago. Since then, it has become clear that most drugs exhibit some degree of polypharmacology, with off-target effects that can contribute to unwanted
Perspective Journal: News and Polit (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
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Politico (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
President Obama plans on holding a 'jobs summit' this week to aid the economy.
DeRosaWorld (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Thirty days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day. Anymore bullets than the three (one missed, the magic bullet, the head shot) from the Warren Commission Report and it would...
Deep Politics Monitor (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... Perhaps then, for a brief second, we would laugh at the apparent contradictions in the “magic bullet” official explanation of the single, undamaged bullet, which allegedly killed President Kennedy and wounded Gov. John Connally, a feat which required the bullet to change course in midair. Somehow, I find it hard to believe that anyone would laugh if we all...
Wort's Going On Here? (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
I've written about it before. Raising excise taxes is a self-defeating exercise. The evidence is all around us, and yet politicians still see these regressive taxes a a magic bullet that will fund all their largesses and end the offensive behavior being taxed. In Louisiana, more politicians are jumping on the excise tax bandwagon to make up for budgetary shortfalls brought about by the...
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to a national policy is a big stretch. See " Charter schools hold promise, but they're no magic bullet ."
The Sir Robert Bond Papers (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
... were really convinced they could cut a deal, if they really thought they had stumbled on the magic bullet to cure a 40 year old grievance, they’d never have done it in public perhaps before the letter to Hydro Quebec even got to Montreal. Nope. If you had any leverage at all, you wouldn’t pull a stunt. You’d pull the lever. -srbp-
BLACKFIVE (Free subscription) | yesterday
... that builds rapport and trust with each tribe as we clear their area of Talibs. There is no magic bullet for Afghanistan, and the idea that we can set a desired end state is only possible if the goal is to bring our troops home by a set date regardless of conditions on the ground.
The Agonist (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... not a techno-optimist. I don’t think that technology will solve all our ills or that any magic bullet will arise to fix everything for us. In fact, every technological development (and I include new forms of social organization here) will solve one problem and introduce others. But the pace of technological development is still increasing and has become shockingly fast—so...
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Politico is fast replacing The New York Times as my favorite source of screen shots. Of course, nothing yet approaches the NY Times' Nude Swiss Hikers screen shot, but give the new media time. For now, be satisfied with this ultra-obvious Politico headline : While obvious, the headline also engages in a bit of overstatement. The "jobs summit" not only is not a magic bullet,...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... on how social media can help build valuable word of mouth. The Internet may not be the One True Magic Bullet that will #SavePublishing when Winfrey's gone—in fact, we know it isn't—but it strikes us that anything that points the way forward is a much more valuable use of time and energy than providing the business media with ready fodder for the "Oh noes! We iz doomed!"...
Grahame's KBB blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
If the magic bullet in an independent retailer's armoury is product knowledge, why is there so much reluctance to send staff to be trained? In my day job recently I interviewed this chap . It's Gary Dart, the managing director of Duravit UK and if I am honest, I don't know why he looks so happy in this picture. In 2007 Duravit surveyed a cross section of its customers about what they...
Nick Robinson's Newslog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... obscurity of being Scotland's fourth party. Independence will not, Salmond tells me, be a "magic bullet" which will solve all of Scotland's problems. However, his proposals will aim to move away from debates about symbols. The Queen can stay, so too the pound and the army and there will, he assures non-Scots, be no passports, no Hadrian's Wall, no ditch on the border. The...
Nick Robinson's Newslog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... obscurity of being Scotland's fourth party. Independence will not, Salmond tells me, be a "magic bullet" which will solve all of Scotland's problems. However, his proposals will aim to move away from debates about symbols. The Queen can stay, so too the pound and the army and there will, he assures non-Scots, be no passports, no Hadrian's Wall, no ditch on the border. The...
