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...state viewers will laugh or be offended, but at least NBC has made a sitcom about people who don't drink merlot in penthouses. (Whereas Four Kings, a midseason sitcom with Seth Green, sounds like a parody of a derivative NBC sitcom concept: four single young guys inherit a huge Manhattan apartment. Is one of them a paleontologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NBC: No longer Pea-cocky | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

...elected, Garcia will inherit daunting domestic challenges. Many of Peru's 19.2 million people live in appalling poverty, with an average per capita annual income of only $867. In the Andes, the army is at war with Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a guerrilla group that advocates a Maoist-style revolution. Be cause of fears of terrorism, 105,000 army troops and police were placed on alert on election day. A dynamite blast, blamed by police on guerrillas in the central Andes city of Huancayo, killed two children and wounded four other people. But a call by Sendero Luminoso to boycott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Stirring Hope | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...selling its stake in PetroChina, “Harvard has divested from the most culpable company by far, slated to inherit all of CNPC’s southern Sudanese oil assets,” said Eric Reeves, a Smith College professor and outspoken critic of the Sudanese regime...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sudan Ties May Still Exist | 4/6/2005 | See Source »

...second major problem arising from the fact that workers do not own the money they pay in payroll taxes is that their heirs cannot inherit their accumulated retirement savings. Upon the death of the worker, no matter how much or how little the worker has paid in taxes or collected in benefits, the money he or she paid into Social Security disappears. None is passed on to his or her children or grandchildren...

Author: By Michael Tanner, | Title: FOCUS: In the End, It’s About Ownership | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...intriguing opportunity. His official nemesis, Prime Minister Tony Blair, is expected to motor down The Mall this week to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament, kicking off the campaign for a general election on May 5. This means it's crunch time for Howard, the third Tory leader to inherit the big problem of digging his party out of the rubble of huge losses to Labour in 1997 and 2001. Right now the Tories have 162 seats in the House of Commons to Labour's 408, and an ICM poll two weeks ago showed Labour leading 40% to 32%. Couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whistling In the Dark? | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

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