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...health care for 225,000 children, laying off 5,000 state workers, shortening the school year by a week and slashing university spending by $1.2 billion, the governor plans to sell some of the state's leading landmarks to raise cash. Among the properties being considered for the auction block: the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (home of the 1932 and 1980 Summer Olympic Games), estimated price $400 million; San Quentin state prison, estimated value $1 billion; and Del Mar Fairgrounds (the famed "Where the Turf Meets the Surf" race track north of San Diego), estimated value $500 million. (Read about...
While some teams have cheered the idea, others have blown a gasket. Ferrari, the sport's oldest and most illustrious team, this week threatened to quit Formula One unless the plans were parked. On Friday, Team Ferrari filed an injunction in a French court to block the cap. Rivals Renault, Toyota, Red Bull and Torro Rosso all issued similar warnings. "If the regulations for 2010 will not change," read a Ferrari statement, "then Ferrari does not intend to enter cars in the next Formula One world championship." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...aggression (“Exercising Power in Georgia,” Opinion, May 13), Ellen C. Bryson offers readers much information that is incomplete and misleading. Ms. Bryson fails to inform readers that Russia has recently stood alone against the entire Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to block impartial observers from monitoring the disputed border between Russia and Georgia. Thus, it is Russia that leaves NATO with no alternative other than military confrontation. She fails to acknowledge that Russia has played a key and improper role in supporting the opposition protesters on Georgia’s streets...
...skewed toward the rich. It would replace almost all the stimulus - including tax cuts for workers as well as spending on schools, infrastructure and clean energy - with a capital gains-tax holiday for investors. Oh, and it would shrink the budget by replacing Medicare with vouchers, turning Medicaid into block grants, means-testing Social Security and freezing everything else except defense and veterans' spending for five years, putting programs for food safety, financial regulation, flu vaccines and every other sacred government cow on the potential chopping block...
...alliance among the nations that support the military cooperation of NATO has not extended to a set of economic bonds that are even more important as the global financial crisis claims victims in countries such as Ireland and the old Eastern European block. That gives Asia an advantage as the recession continues...