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...Americans are wonderfully generous people. You're a lot of other things as well - some good, some bad.' HELEN MIRREN, British actress, while accepting an Emmy Award for her performance in the TV miniseries Prime Suspect
...country's bloated budget deficit in line with financial rules that underpin the stability of the euro. Selling off struggling state-owned companies and overhauling the country's debt-ridden pension system will figure high on government's second-term agenda. Greece's rapidly aging population and system of generous pension benefits are "the main risk factors to Greece's long-term fiscal sustainability," according to a recent report by the ING. As the European Union's fastest-aging nation, Greece could have one pensioner for every worker by 2040, threatening a blowout in a budget deficit that conservatives managed...
...different rates, or how they have managed to become capitalist powerhouses in only a generation. At best, A Farewell to Alms is woefully naive; at worst, willfully reductionist. But Clark is right on a least one point: the industrialized world's prescription for affluence - good government, efficient markets and generous transfusions of foreign aid - has done little to spread prosperity to countries like Malawi. As he writes, "There is no simple economic medicine that will guarantee growth...
...otherwise generous and enlightened institution so hard-hearted and heavy-handed when it seeks to expand...
...basically, to be photographed looking great while pretending to be other people - but it's not exactly coal-mining in West Virginia. So some of them give back to the world that gave them so much; Clooney, whom I'd call the exemplary Hollywood star, has been especially generous in lending his aura to well-chosen issues and charities. The top actors also appear in films that are, in their subject matter and their underdog status in the commercial movie universe, their own worthy causes. That's what brought Reese and Jake and George up to Toronto: to raise awareness...