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...Berlin's problems can be traced back to the subsidies - amounting to half the total budget in West Berlin - the city once received for its businesses, schools and culture. As a capitalist island behind the Iron Curtain, it was seen as a special case, deserving of special support. Now all that has changed. After the East German government was swept away in 1990, the subsidies were phased out. It became too expensive for companies to run factories there. "Berlin's citizens were very spoiled in the time of the divided country," says Sarrazin. The massive job losses that followed reunification...
...minute speech, Romney, who was elected governor last year, drew on his experience outside of the public sector as a venture capitalist and as a key organizer of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics...
...Luther Blissett Project because, as they wrote in one of their many manifestos, Blissett is "the ineffable alias that means both everybody and nobody." Ineffable is an apt word for the group's nonfiction: dense Internet screeds against globalization, political corruption, corporate control of the media and other capitalist sins. As the Project's adherents grew into the thousands across Europe, they also perpetrated some attention-grabbing pranks. They sparked an international manhunt in 1995 after announcing that British artist Harry Kipper had disappeared while bicycling through Europe; Kipper turned out not to exist. Later that year they hijacked...
...axis of evil," Kim Jong Il must have found the rapid fall of Saddam Hussein unsettling. But to North Korea's Dear Leader, America is not only a potential military enemy, but also an insidious moral threat. The danger posed is outlined in "On Vigorously Combating the Infiltration of Capitalist Ideology and Culture," a 16-page North Korean document which TIME has obtained. Stamped "For Internal Party Use Only" and purportedly distributed to senior Party officials late last year, the document asserts that the U.S., South Korea and Japan are besieging the North with pornographic videos, Hollywood movies and racy...
...Leung hardly looks the part of a modern Mata Hari, with her librarian glasses and hair in a bun. She lived with her husband and son in a $1.3 million house in the leafy L.A. suburb of San Marino. Although she called herself a venture capitalist and ran a consulting business from home, she spent much of her time courting California's political players. She was host of a fund raiser for the failed gubernatorial race of former L.A. mayor Richard Riordan and gave $10,000 to his campaign. When Chinese leaders Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji came to town...