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Cost of living expected to increase in Qatar: Survey

Emirates Business Majority of respondents in Qatar (nearly 60 percent) expect business conditions to improve in the next year, while 43 percent expect the country’s overall economy to improve in the near future, according to a latest survey. When it comes to the cost of living in the next six months, 71 percent of respondents expect it to increase, while ...

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Why Obama got fundamentals of American foreign policy right

Ronald Dworkin, the legal philosopher who died in 2013, famously used a metaphor once to explain the core of his thinking on the philosophy of law. In the context of American common law and constitutional interpretation, Dworkin analogized the role of judges as the writers of a “chain novel.” The law, per Dworkin, was a collective novel, composed by a ...

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Contested convention may deepen Republican chaos

The anti-Donald Trump brigade is banking on defeating him this week in Ohio, and possibly Florida, paving the way for an “open” convention that would deny him the Republican presidential nomination and avoid what it believes would be a general election debacle. This is an uphill climb under any scenario and probably impossible if Trump wins both states on Tuesday. ...

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