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...manufacturers expect export orders to fall further in the coming months, according to the British employers' organization, the CBI. In the meantime, British holidaymakers used to vacationing in France or Spain are making plans for breaks closer to home. Outside the Bank of England, which moved to its present central London site in 1734, one oil-industry worker with a fondness for European travel says he'll "just sit tight" until the pound gets stronger again. Behind him, the city's buses shuttle workers home, with posters on their sides trumpeting the latest movie releases: Slumdog Millionaire, Seven Pounds...
...slum dwellers protested outside the Mumbai home of actor Anil Kapoor, who plays a leading role in the film. The protesters held banners reading "I Am Not a Dog" - referring to slumdog in the film's title - and "Poverty for Sale." Two days earlier, a slum leader in the central Indian city of Patna took the Indian cast and crew of the film to court for allegedly offending slum dwellers by the pejorative in the title. He said he didn't expect any better of the British people associated with the film, because their ancestors called Indians "dogs" anyway...
...Worked on Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, and later became Clinton's deputy staff secretary. In 1995 he was promoted to staff secretary and assistant to the president. As secretary, he played a central role in preparing presentations on key domestic, economic and national security issues for the President's decision...
...torture. An executive order signed by Obama now requires that interrogations of anyone in U.S. custody follow what's known as the Army Field Manual. The 384-page book lays out 19 interrogation techniques permitted by law and prohibits nine categories of others, including waterboarding, used by the Central Intelligence Agency during the Bush Administration, as well as forcing prisoners to be naked, as happened in the Abu Ghraib prisoner scandal. The Army Field Manual itself is specific; it includes precise instructions on the steps U.S. interrogators are to follow when trying to get information out of detainees, right down...
Sleigh Bells. The Time Hotel in Manhattan's midtown is offering the "Lovin' Time" package with a private dinner in the rooftop glass pavilion room, breakfast in bed and a carriage ride in Central Park. Starting at $790. 224 West 49th Street...