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...garish orange livery of Stelios Haji-Ioannou is spreading over Europe like a virus--and his competitors haven't found a cure. This natural-born salesman, a 34-year-old combination of the cerebral and the showman, of rich kid and hustler, has a knack for presenting the consumer with a cheap service that's free of the hassle and headache usually associated with discounts. He's applying the idea liberally across a growing number of businesses under the umbrella of easy--as in easyJet, easyRentacar and easyEverything...
...since the early 1970s. Currencies most everywhere are getting clobbered. Stock markets are comatose. And you could just about paper over Bangkok's skyscrapers with all the pink slips Asia's companies are handing out. Yet ask government officials or corporate chieftains if anything can be done to cure their economic ills and it's blank stares all around. It is as if they are powerless victims of some malevolent...
...Ordinary taxpayers acknowledge that economic reform is the only way out of Japan's bind, a view the West has pushed all along. "It's like you're in the final stages of a fatal disease and someone comes along with a potential cure," says Bill Wilder, head of the Japanese arm of Fidelity Investments. "You don't know if it'll work or if it won't, but you've got no choice." Some worry Koizumi is trying too much, too soon. "He's promised structural reforms, along with clearing up bank loans and cutting government debt...
...stripper Bambi Kellerman, who believes that "racism is easier to catch than AIDS." In between characters, Uys tells sobering stories from the AIDS frontline: of schools that refuse to install condom-dispensing machines because they don't want to encourage sex; of the urban legend that raping a virgin cures the disease. The son of a German-Jewish mother and an Afrikaans father, Uys, 56, began his career as a playwright in the early 1970s but found his work banned. Undeterred, he donned a frowzy dress and created his famous alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, the saccharine-sweet wife...
...Indeed, the cure is more hotly debated than what ails the system. Bush and his top aides argue that allowing Americans to put a part of their Social Security nest egg into personal retirement accounts makes good sense for the retirees and the system as a whole. The return on Social Security is pitifully low, they complain, an argument appealing to younger voters who are just starting to pay into the system. They have more experience than their elders in playing the stock market where there can be higher returns. "It's wrong to mislead people with promises of 'trust...