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...consolation: European confectionery and biscuitmakers say the new prices will make them more competitive. How sweet it is. - By Peter Gumbel Getting Posh In Prague Thanks to the likes of Easyjet and Sky Europe, the flow of budget-conscious tourists into Central and Eastern Europe is becoming a flood: visitors to Budapest are up 37% during the first quarter of 2005; international arrivals in Warsaw in March were up 35% to 509,000; and Serbia has announced $2.8 billion in subsidies to kick-start tourism there. But having skimped on the fares, it seems many tourists want to swank...
...make their way to Edinburgh to campaign for Africa's poor. He even wants another Dunkirk of small boats to ferry activists across the English Channel; much better TV than taking Ryanair. Geldof is also mounting a worldwide string of "Live 8" concerts the weekend before to unleash a flood of public concern for Africa he hopes will induce the Gleneagles crew to write some bigger aid checks. But the interesting thing is how much kabuki has entered the relationship between the protesters and the guys in suits. They are using each other, and enjoying it. One leader...
...house rather than bank it. If he were alive, I'm sure he would be scolding my Uncle Adam for selling the property for a mere $22,000 a few years back. Who would have thought that reading an article about real estate would awaken such a flood of memories...
Curator Clem Conger, who has lovingly guided the White House to new levels of grace and beauty, says the mansion never looked better, nor has there ever been so much interest in its history. There will soon be two new volumes on just that subject, part of the flood tide of material on the presidency...
Outrageous? Yes. Ridiculous? In many cases. Unreasonable? Certainly. And yet the examples represent just a small sampling from a rising flood of problems growing out of what has become a new national crisis. Given the litigious nature of American society these days, just about any kind of business, profession or government agency is likely to become the target of a suit alleging malpractice or negligence resulting in personal injury. That makes liability insurance, the kind that pays off on such claims, just about as vital as oil in keeping the economy functioning. But in the past two years, liability insurance...