Notre Dame Rebuilding Notre Dame New Republic Notre-Dame saved within vital half hour BBC Incendie de Notre-Dame de Paris : ce qui a été perdu et ce qui a été sauvé Le Monde Notre-Dame nétait pas assurée : contre qui lEtat peut-il donc se retourner ? Le…
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2:00PM Water Cooler 4/9/2019
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Trade “U.S. Moves to Impose Tariffs on $11 Billion of EU Goods” [WSJ]. “The Trump administration moved Monday toward imposing tariffs on about $11 billion in imports from the European Union, saying the move was justified by …
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2:00PM Water Cooler 4/10/2019
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune 2020 Gravel: The …
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Toyota Waits on Electric Cars as Volkswagen Forges Ahead
A $255 billion debate is raging among the world’s biggest automakers. Some think electric cars made by companies besides Tesla Inc. stand the chance to be hits, while others think they’ll fail to really sell. Toyota Motor Corp. may have kicked off the green-…
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SpaceX Plans First-Ever Commercial Falcon Heavy Launch Tonight
It has been more than a year since SpaceX successfully completed the first demo flight of the long-awaited Falcon Heavy, and today could be its first commercial flight. Following a last-minute delay, SpaceX expects to launch the Arabsat-6A from NASA’s histori…
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