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Carlos Clot, private eye, has seen it all. Born just before the oil ran out, he has endured Spain's election of a communist government, the resulting U.S. invasion and the rise of English as the official language. Now he prowls the carless, bicycle-clogged streets of Madrid, tracking runaway kids and errant spouses for $100 a day plus expenses. He keeps a bottle of whiskey in his filing cabinet under the letter I, for Indispensable. Into his crummy office one day walks ? ah, but we're getting ahead of the story. Clot is the hard-boiled, hard-drinking hero...
...When this was first implemented, a lot of people thought it was a communist plot,” he said. “The government started fluoridating communities in 1945...and by 1950 saw such a dramatic benefit that the government endorsed it for the entire country...
...income gap among Chinese residents has been worsening since the year of 2003 and has reached the 'yellow' alarm level. Should there be no effective measures, it will reach the dangerous 'red' level in five years." ARTICLE appearing in China's Communist Party-run newspaper Study Times last week, seen as a government acknowledgement that increasing social unrest across the country might be tied to a growing gap between rich and poor...
Klaus also said he that he supports the Czech Republic’s membership despite his opposition to many of the EU practices. Klaus’s justification for Czech membership lies in the idea that post-Communist countries need EU acceptance to achieve some modicum of “international recognition” and legitimacy...
...expects this will enrage apparatchiks, but says, "then we'll do it outdoors, under the open skies." "It is a great compliment to the artists that they should be feared," says Stoppard. In Belarus to give a master class to the FT, he was reminded of his visits to communist Czechoslovakia, when he saw actors perform banned works in private apartments. As Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led that country's revolution and became its President reminded FT members in a letter of support, "it was the Prague actors' strike in 1989 that triggered" the peaceful uprising. "It's extraordinary...