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...June 28, Jacqui Smith, 44, Britain's freshly appointed Home Secretary, and the first woman ever to hold the post, arrived at her new quarters to find three battered red ministerial boxes on her desk. Their contents - essential reading to help her master her complex new brief - kept her busy until late in the evening. Then she returned to her London home and went to bed - to be woken a few hours later by the news that there had been an attempted car-bomb attack in the capital. Less than 12 hours after she'd taken office, Britain was facing...
Since launching two weeks ago more than 1,000 people have created profiles on the site. A brief survey of a few shows that most people still list religion and caste details as well as whether they are vegetarian or "non-veg" (as carnivores in India are known) and whether they have kids or not. Though some Indian commentators have suggested that divorcees are less worried than other Indians about religion and caste when searching for a mate, Pahwa says his gut feel is they may "care as much - maybe even more, especially if they've had a bad experience...
...June 28, Jacqui Smith, 44, Britain's freshly appointed Home Secretary, and the first woman ever to hold the post, arrived at her new quarters to find three battered red ministerial boxes on her desk. Their contents-essential reading to help her master her complex new brief-kept her busy until late in the evening. Then she returned to her London home and went to bed-to be woken a few hours later by the news that there had been an attempted car-bomb attack in the capital. Less than 12 hours after she'd taken office, Britain was facing...
...Kevin Durant: (Brief silence) It would be an honor for me to be a top pick in the draft. But if I go second, I'm not going to complain at all. I'm just happy to be in this position to be considered a top-two pick. But to go number one would be icing on the cake...
...When you take a step back and look at the end result, you sort of say, This can't be right," argues Victor Fleischer, a law professor at the University of Illinois. Fleischer explained this conclusion in a paper that he began circulating last year. Since then, his brief for taxing carried interest as ordinary income--what the proposed House bill would do--has won over tax wonks and piqued congressional interest. "It seems like a reasonable argument," says Alan Auerbach, a University of California, Berkeley, economist and tax expert. "I don't think there are many people...