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Each minute tons of goods pass freely, quickly, and quietly across international borders. The new Blackberry Storm, released last Friday and equipped with beautiful haptic touch-screens, will certainly reach far-flung outposts in Oceania, the Andes, and the Sahara by the time you read this column. Many of the gadgets will probably rest in the palms of business executives sitting in pleather first-class seats, on missions to freely, quickly, and quietly move capital across international borders. And far below them while they fly, floating on rafts and side-winding in the desert high noon, will be migrants, refugees...
...that comment while giving a paid speech for the National Bank of Kuwait, which is the kind of thing for which he earned more than $10 million last year alone. Beyond his six-figure speaking fees, there are also a myriad of undisclosed contributions to the former President's far-flung charitable endeavors and to his presidential library, many of which have come from foreign interests that his wife would be dealing with as Secretary of State...
Journalists often make the best travelers because they are so curious and intrepid. Marion Hume, who wrote the cover story on Australia's far-flung islands, has logged more miles in her career as a Sydney- and London-based writer than she would care to admit. Steadfast and unafraid, Hume will dash off to Beijing on a moment's notice and can touch down in a remote corner of New Zealand and uncover a cutting-edge, global boutique...
...personalities than a sign of its times. A fragmented media may simply be past the era of Russerts and Cronkites. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. As the glitter of the long-planned electionpalooza settled to earth, there remained a disastrous econ0my, energy and climate crises and far-flung wars. And understanding them will take more than big stars and Jedi effects...
...highest ever voter registrations this election year - and an almost commensurate number of legal battles between Republicans and Democrats over which ones should count. It remains unclear which party will gain the upper hand, however, and both candidates continue swinging away at the quintessential swing state, with many neighborhoods far-flung from Democratic Cleveland still in play. By Charu Gupta / Cleveland...