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...taps persistence on the shoulder, says, You're not needed here. But put the two together, Tiger Woods' easy power and ferocious discipline?and he makes history. There's some sweet irony in the fact that before Pistorius came along, there was no need for the rules that now ban him. Only when the disabled runner challenged the able-bodied ones did officials institute a rule against springs and wheels and any artificial aids to running. That's a testimony to technology, but it is also a tribute to the sheer nerve and fierce will that...
...unprompted torrent of negative attacks on Huckabee. Then on Thursday, his campaign staff came to the grounds of the statehouse, where they offered reporters cigars (made in Nicaragua) to illustrate an accompanying press release that noted Huckabee had recently backed off his earlier support for a federal smoking ban...
...alternative to the "clash of civilizations" mind-set, which was first described by political scientist Samuel Huntington and has characterized much post-9/11 thinking about the relationships between Islam and the West. The United Nations agreed to sponsor the program, which it considered, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his remarks to the Forum on Tuesday, "an important way to counter extremism and heal the divisions that threaten our world...
...small, universal per-client tax each month. A flat monthly surtax of just one euro on each of the nation's 16.1 million Internet accounts would raise around $290 million per year - or nearly 25% of the $1.2 billion in annual revenues public TV will lose to an advertising ban. It is conceivable, at least, that the monthly tax could go even higher without incurring too much consumer fury, since France currently enjoys one of the cheapest ISP markets in the developed world. Average monthly Internet access in France costs around $37, which is 37% below the norm for OECD...
...taboo-defying Internet tax doesn't generate protest, Sarkozy's ad ban on public TV probably will. State TV officials have already voiced their displeasure with the proposal that could translate in job cuts and more political meddling with their programming. Pundits, meanwhile, have been quick to point out that the plan would send billions in new ad revenue to private broadcasters - principally market leader TF1, which is owned by a group run by Martin Bouygues, a close friend of Sarkozy. Sarkozy has also suggested a new tax of TV ad revenues, meant to generate additional funding for public channels...