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...Having sanctioned some $1.3 trillion in state- and central-bank aid to protect its country's troubled lenders, Britain's government has been mulling a bank tax for months. Prime Minister Gordon Brown's proposal last fall for an international "Tobin tax" - a levy on financial-market transactions ranging from foreign-currency trades to derivatives - received a chilly reception abroad. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pooh-poohed it as "not something we're prepared to support." But Darling's call for a global bank tax could yield something closer to the U.S. vision. Such a levy might involve taxing banks...
...mother was one of 11,000 to fall victim to HIV/AIDS in Botswana that year...
...said she is looking forward to the opportunity for students to learn more from Pierre-Louis during the former prime minister’s stint on campus next fall...
...don’t want to go through your whole life winning,” Brent says. “Because then if something bad happens down the road, you can fall into some type of depression if you’ve never dealt with failure before and can’t see the silver lining in the clouds...
...game he plays extraordinarily well. Breitbart has become the Web's most combative conservative impresario - part new-media mogul, part Barnumesque scamp. Last fall, he launched Big Government, the flagship of his wickedly right-of-center sites, which also include Big Hollywood, Big Journalism - which described the House's March 21 passage of the health care reform bill as a "socialist putsch" - and the news aggregators Breitbart.com and Breitbart.tv. On its first day of business, Big Government produced a scoop: undercover filmmakers James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles - the would-be Borats of the right - had shot videos that appeared...