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...regional elections for allegedly submitting fraudulent ballot signatures. She claims she's being singled out in a system where signatures are rarely all authentic. "We are fighting against the power, and we're not going to let them get away with it," Mussolini told TIME from across a fold-down table in her cramped camper. Yet Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said last week that his rapport with Mussolini was "excellent," and that sooner or later she will realize her destiny lies within his center-right coalition. With regional polls coming up in two weeks, and a fraught race already...
...master's degree from Stanford and a Harvard M.B.A. didn't help return Huang to the Marxist fold. Nor did an exercise in entrepreneurship when he co-founded General Wireless (now known as MTone), one of the first mainland-owned companies to receive venture-capital funding in the mid-'90s. Now Huang is sowing the seeds of capitalism as China managing director of Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund, a $400 million venture fund. "There's a tendency for foreigners to look at [Chinese] companies run by English-speaking CEOs because they feel they can trust them and talk directly to them...
...global population rose more than sixfold in just two centuries, while the world's average per-capita income rose even faster, increasing around ninefold between 1820 and 2000. In today's rich countries, the economic growth was even more astounding. The U.S. per-capita income increased almost 25-fold during this period. In beholding that success, many people embrace faulty social theories of those differences. When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority--whether religious, racial, genetic, ethnic, cultural or institutional--rather than an accident of timing...
...insane," says Bradley, a professor at the Tyler School of Art near Philadelphia. "So I decided to make my own." She bought a $100 sewing machine and a hundred dollars' worth of fake orange fur, and when she was done, she had a full-length shawl collar coat with fold-up cuffs. More important, she had taught herself to sew. "I knew if I could make this coat, I would gain a lifetime ability to make things I love...
...Service Employees International Union, is one that would forcibly merge dozens of unions, putting weaker ones out of existence, with the goal of consolidating the bargaining power of unions in key industries. Sweeney opposes the idea (though he says he would support any unions that decide to merge or fold voluntarily). It's just one of the potential sources of conflict at what promises to be a contentious meeting of the AFL-CIO executive council this week in Las Vegas...