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After centuries of living in photogenic poverty, the people of Zug decided in 1946 to turn their canton into a haven that would attract companies even from other parts of Switzerland. Today the 97,800 residents of the Zug canton, many of whom work in the corporate offices here, enjoy an average annual income of $40,000. Among them are at least six billionaires. Unemployment is virtually...
...media missed what may have set Chávez off in the first place. Chávez became visibly irritated at the summit when Spain's current Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero - a socialist and Chávez ally - insisted that Latin America needs to attract more foreign capital if it's going to make a dent in its chronic, deepening poverty. Chávez blames "savage capitalism" for Latin America's gaping inequality and insists "only socialism" can fix it - hence his tirade against Aznar and other free-market "fascists." At that point Zapatero chided...
...Britney-Madonna kiss in 2003, Spears’w universally panned appearance at this year’s VMAs captured all the wrong kinds of attention. “Blackout,” then, is faced with a challenge: it has to win fans back or at least attract a new demographic of followers. Each track seems acutely aware of this pressure. “Blackout” is a coherent attack on the paparazzi, media, and K-Fed. Spears displays a concerted self-confidence that imbues the album with intensity and energy. Most tracks have a heavily electronic sound...
...numbers are even more impressive considering that as of early October, 72% of G.O.P. voters told Gallup pollsters they didn't know enough about Paul to form an opinion. He has been able to attract followers in the debates, where he's presented a clear, simple philosophy of personal freedom and responsibility. He bluntly refers to the U.S. as an empire. And the nerdiness lends Paul's simple message an aura of credibility, especially on a stage with more polished politicians and their nuanced positions. "He's about something that American nerd culture can get on board with: really knowing...
...Paul's popularity can't necessarily be explained by a previously undetected craving for gold-standard debates on college campuses. His message, even if packaged in obscure economic lectures, is that there is something very corrupt, very Halliburton-Blackwatery going on with our military-industrial complex, and that can attract some pretty weird followers. At the Iowa State event, a student stood outside in a tricornered hat and Revolutionary War-era suit, ringing a bell. Representative Tom Tancredo, another long-shot G.O.P. candidate, tells me that after a debate in New Hampshire, one of his staffers walked...