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...minimum gesture for the recipients of excessively large banking bonuses - which are totally disproportionate and cause resentment and disgust in the vast majority of people - to give three-quarters of their bonuses for the past three years to Haiti or to victims of other natural disasters? That might go some way to restoring bankers' disgraceful image. C. Kizlink, MONACO...
...they sell him, and further up still, someone brings many of the goods into the country without paying the full customs duties. So far, Dimitris says, his store hasn't been audited. But when the tax authorities come to look at his books, he knows how the conversation will go. He'll invite them in and offer them a whiskey or a coffee and wait until the mood is right. He's done it before. "I say, 'Now we are friends,'" he explains. "As a friend, are you going to put me in jail...
...examples go on. A request for allowing restaurants to sell alcohol this Valentine's Day in Oxford, Miss., was rejected without comment. In Connecticut, which is the only state in New England to still have a blue law prohibiting Sunday alcohol sales, mayors of the state's three largest cities petitioned unsuccessfully to have the law repealed - citing a 2009 study that suggested Connecticut was losing millions in tax revenue to its neighbors...
...back. There's one lap, two laps; a little over a dozen laps during this 5,000-meter event, round and round for more than six minutes. They race against the times of the 26 other skaters in the competition, not their neighbor on the ice. As spectator sports go, long-track speed skating ranks somewhere between watching a stroll in the park and white noise. (Watch a video of the Dutch love for speed skating...
...ringing cowbells, waving noisemakers, treating this somniferous sport as it were a championship title bout. When Dutchman Sven Kramer, 24, won the gold and set an Olympic 5,000-meter record, they roared. But, then again, they cheered boisterously for every skater that passed by them. As sports fans go, no group is more bewildering than the speed-skating nuts from Holland...