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...investigation start? Police began to look into party finances after four businessmen nominated for peerages in 2005 were blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. The body was concerned that the men had recently handed over large amounts of cash to the ruling Labour Party. A spokesman for one of the men, entrepreneur Sir Gulam Noon, claimed Noon had been encouraged by Levy to omit details of a $460,000 loan to the party from his application...
...sudden passion for half-wit humor? Well, National Lampoon has also produced a sometimes tasteless but usually funny series of movies. The biggest: National Lampoon's Animal House, which netted the firm $13 million. Lots of businessmen can giggle over that...
...Bangladeshi politics has become so rotten that many businessmen and foreign investors quietly hope for a military government (though a glance at the recently installed regime in Thailand suggests economic stability is no certainty with soldiers in charge). Even some political scientists think it's time to take a break from democracy. "We don't want in the 21st century to be ruled by the military, but if we can't agree and we always fight then there needs to be an umpire, and the military can play that role," says Ataur Rahman, a professor of political science at Dhaka...
...other low-end merchandise. The annual trade fair in Guangzhou, a city at the vanguard of China's march toward capitalism over the past two decades, was overcrowded as usual last October with prospective foreign buyers of toys, clothing, shoes and handbags. But there was a difference, say businessmen who attended. "A lot of purchasers came to negotiate, but they didn't want to pay the higher prices," says Zhen Dahui, an executive for an umbrella-and-handbag manufacturer in China's Fujian province, complaining that his firm did fewer deals than usual...
Voters also don't take kindly to nonpoliticians: two businessmen, Wendell Willkie and Ross Perot, made serious runs for the White House, although neither came close. Americans will elect a political neophyte only if he passes the Hamilton test of pre-eminent ability. Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight Eisenhower had never held elective office, but they won their wars. Some Presidents pass both tests: Theodore Roosevelt fought well in the Spanish-American War and in New York State politics. Among the prospective 2008 candidates, only one has shown pre-eminent ability: Rudy Giuliani, in solving the crime problem...