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RENWICK: If you talk to small-business people today, I would say rising health-care cost is probably the biggest item on their agenda of what is hurting their small businesses. There is a place where the government can really play an important role in keeping those costs under control. So there are consequences of having our tax rates too low as well as having our tax rates too high, and we need to have that balance...
...thought and hoped that [my speech] would raise some eyebrows and get people thinking,” Yasin wrote in an e-mail from Pakistan, where he is currently working, “but had absolutely no idea that it would become the national news item that...
...years ago this month, and went on to sell millions of copies as a novel. H2G2, as the entire opus is now known, grew into a multibook series, a stage play, a TV adaptation, a video game, comic books, a website and even a towel (a key H2G2,plot item). Adams fan clubs flourish, and Disney has reportedly dusted off plans for a movie based on Arthur Dent's interstellar wanderings. But as M.J. Simpson notes in his minutely detailed Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (Hodder & Stoughton; 393 pages), the man commonly credited with inventing the genre of humorous...
...independent Greek Justice system has always, after thorough investigations of every item of the so-called indisputable evidence and disclosure, ascertained that all ‘charges’ were and are groundless,” wrote Kokkalis.“The arrogant slanderers who launch such malicious attacks should become well aware that, eventually, their attempts would receive a fitting reply...
...Daily reports no drop-off in sales of luxury French designers like Chanel at New York City department stores. The town of Paris, Texas, which proudly displays its French connection, left, is not changing its name. And IHOP says anti-French fervor has not hurt its new breakfast-menu item, Stuffed French Toast. "French toast really has nothing to do with France," notes an IHOP spokesman. "This has been our most successful new product." But what about other French fare? --By Harriet Barovick...