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...enough because he wanted to carry on with his life." The day after Pat's cremation, he brought the younger woman into their home to be his second wife. "Would you say you have had a happy life?" the Nobel-winning novelist records asking Pat in his diary. "No direct answer," he writes. "It was perhaps my own fault," comes her faint reply...
...reason politicians may be unlikely to declare war on direct mail is that it yields an estimated $646 billion a year in sales. (The magazine industry, including TIME Inc., which publishes TIME, makes frequent use of direct mail.) "Mail works," says Don McKenzie, CEO of Direct Group, a direct-marketing company. "It's one of the best advertising methods out there." Which means that free-market solutions are likely to remain your best ally in combatting mailbox mess...
...greater role for the new Secretary of State. But while she is well known overseas, Clinton understands she will have real influence abroad only if she is seen as having it within the Obama inner circle at home. One of her demands was assurance that she would have a direct line of communication to the President whenever she felt she needed it. She has also insisted on picking her own team at the State Department, though it helps that she and Obama reportedly have agreed that her deputy should be James Steinberg, an Obama confidant who was also Deputy National...
...contact with the Salvation Army is its holiday season kettles or its more than 1,300 thrift stores, these programs represent less than 15% of the charity's annual revenue in the U.S. (Most of the rest of its 2007 income came from in-kind donations, government funds, and direct online or mail contributions.) The Army is the second-largest charity in America - the United Way is number one - a fact that's astounding when you consider that it isn't even based in the U.S., but is headquartered in London...
...Tuesday in hopes of persuading Congress to steer aid their way, Europe has started to react. French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a four-year, 400 million-euro package to help French automakers build more environmentally friendly cars. Sarkozy also called last week for the loosening of E.U. restrictions on direct state aid to companies, restrictions established to encourage more-competitive markets in Europe. "We can't have the Americans unlocking $25 billion in loans for their three manufacturers while we would be caught up in a state-assistance regime that does not allow us to help our European automakers," Sarkozy...