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...Class Divisions While upscale businesses have unquestionably benefited from the influx of rich foreigners, it's less clear that their money trickles into the larger economy, helping lift living standards for less-wealthy Londoners. Paul Knox, head of U.K. wealth advisory services at JP Morgan, says rich expats "have tremendous spending power. Interior designers, domestic staff, schooling for their children, bars, restaurants, taxis, and more." On the other hand, "If a rich person brings $1 million into the economy, not all of that $1 million is going to filter into the wider economy," says Jonathan Said, senior economist...
...help deal with the influx in applicants, at least four former Harvard admissions staff members are returning to help read applications, Fitzsimmons said...
...rise, but the growth is uneven. From 2006 to '07, the most populous state, California, grew by more than 300,000, to 36.5 million. Most states had a mild population bump, though a few lost people--like ailing manufacturing giant Michigan, which lost 30,500 inhabitants. Meanwhile, despite the influx of more than 10,000, Wyoming remains the least populated U.S. state, with just 522,000 residents--or roughly 5 people per sq. mi. [This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...there are other dynamics at work this year, the most important of which is an enormous influx of new voters. The University of New Hampshire's Carsey Institute estimates that 145,000 voting-age people have moved to the Granite State in the past five years. While the ones who register do so primarily as undeclared, Smith says he believes they lean heavily Democratic, given that many come from the relatively liberal Boston area. Combined with the 86,000 people who turned 18 in this time, new voters account for nearly a quarter of the state's potential electorate...
...there was one other violation of the generally accepted protocol of peaceful if uneasy coexistence - possibly as a consequence of the recent influx of 266 student volunteers for Paul from 39 states, in what the campaign calls "Ron Paul's Christmas Vacation." As can happen with students on break, they sometimes go overboard in their exuberance. One of them came into the Huckabee offices the other day and started haranguing a worker there about Huckabee's support for a national sales tax. He was asked to leave...