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‘The British government blew £2.5bn on a number of IT projects flagged at high risk of failure in 2014/15, a Register analysis of the Major Project Authority annual report into big government programmes can reveal. The lifetime cost of all those IT projects is almost £36bn. The annual report on the status of 188 big […]

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‘Foreign investment in Israel plummeted almost 50 percent in 2014, a fact attributed to last summer’s assault on Gaza and the growing impact of boycotts. This week the UN’s trade and development agency UNCTAD released its annual World Investment Report on foreign direct investment (FDI) – a measure of money that investors from overseas put […]

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Editor’s Note: Former Redflex CEO, Karen Finley, just pleaded guilty in a federal bribery probe in Ohio. Finley admitted her involvement in a scheme to make campaign donations to officials in Columbus and Cincinnati in exchange for retaining Redflex’s red-light camera contracts. Finley also faces charges related to a $2 million bribery scheme involving the City of Chicago. We’re not surprised. The red-light camera industry has a long history of cozying up to government officials and police in exchange for preferential treatment, as this NMA blog from 2011 clearly documents.  The Corruption of Government Officials (and Police) by the Ticket … Continue reading →

Some like it nutty, others prefer caramel but one thing is undeniable, no matter what additions are put in your chocolate it’s bound to satisfy you. Chocolate is guilty pleasure which some of us simply can’t say no to. Whether it’s the smell that gets you or its creaminess, chocolate offers a number of sensations which just make us feel good. Sadly, though, it often falls under the junk food category due to its sugar and fat content. So what are we supposed to do but limit our consumption of the good stuff. But maybe we can start to indulge a … Continue reading →

Why could archaeologists not find the site of the fabled Hanging Garden of Babylon beside Nebuchadnezzar’s enormous palace at Babylon?  Why did Nebuchadnezzer  omit to mention that he had created a world wonder in his complete and detailed inscriptions?  Why were the Greek accounts of the Hanging Garden written so many centuries later than the time when it was created? These are some of the intriguing questions that impelled me to find out how to understand the tradition.  Earlier scholars had sometimes despaired of a real historical Wonder, and suggested pure legendary fiction, but that was not satisfactory because all … Continue reading →

PARIS – Mon dieu!  France is in the gravest  peril. France has always been the mother of gastronomy with a noble tradition stretching back to the Middle Ages.  The names of great chefs like Escoffier, Careme and Prunier  are shining stars in the firmament of grand cuisine. These luminaries  must be turning in their graves as France forgets its noble gastronomic traditions and plunges into industrialized food preparation worthy of airline swill. My father, Henry Margolis, was part owner of New York City’s renowned Café Chambord, which was America’s leading French restaurant in the 1940’s and 1950’s.  I used to … Continue reading →