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...that Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, will need his rest. On Saturday, he'll face off with Argentine model Nacho Figueras at the Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic on Governor's Island to raise funds for Sentebale, the charity he set up in 2006 to benefit vulnerable children in Lesotho. Sentebale, which supports numerous orphanages and educates people about HIV/AIDS, could use the boost. Income from donations plummeted 84% during the last financial year. (See pictures of Africa's AIDS crisis...
...unlike the affirmative-action case, those generally involved such technical issues that it would be hard to build an opposition campaign around them. For instance, this year a 6-3 Supreme Court overturned a 2007 Sotomayor decision that ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency could not use cost-benefit analysis when deciding whether to require power plants to take steps to limit their impact on aquatic life...
...sources note, Chinese state-owned banks did actively enforce U.S. financial sanctions against the North - the only measures that plainly hurt the top North Korean leadership - precisely because not doing so would have cost them access to the U.S. and international capital markets. "Again, it was a cost-benefit choice for them, and in that case, it was clear the costs were much worse than the benefit of standing by Pyongyang," says a former U.S. intelligence official. Washington ultimately dropped those sanctions in lieu of a diplomatic effort to entice North Korea to give up its nukes...
...Wilders wants to abolish the European Parliament altogether. "Every voter who wants to signal that the European Union is good for nothing in its current form can do so by voting for Geert Wilders," he said. His PVV party, like other political outliers, is expected to benefit from mainstream voter apathy. The Trotskyite anti-capitalist movement of Olivier Besancenot could muster 10% of France's vote, for instance, and the anti-immigrant British National Party could win its first seat...
...rulings Sotomayor had joined. But unlike the affirmative-action case, most of those involved technical issues that would be hard to build an opposition campaign around. Two years ago, a 6-3 court overturned a Sotomayor appellate ruling that determined that the Environmental Protection Agency could not use cost-benefit analysis when deciding whether to require power plants to take steps to limit their impact on aquatic life. In another case, Sotomayor ruled that investors could bring certain kinds of fraud suits against investment firms in state court rather than in federal court. The Supreme Court unanimously overturned that decision...