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...disdain the weaknesses of the democratic system." Kagan notes that "Russian leaders today yearn not for integration with the West but for a return to a special Russian greatness." As for China, its "trend towards regional hegemony is unstoppable" - and "Asia is not the E.U., and China is not Luxembourg." Adding to the unsettling complexity of this situation, writes Kagan, this "club of autocrats" includes a potentially destabilizing junior partner: Iran...
LONDON The brighter, the better at the Conran Shop, where the Luxembourg Trolley...
...ability to win lucrative research grants. But foreigners who opt to study in Japan sometimes regret their decision. Martin Rieger, a German attending Aoyama Gakuin University in central Tokyo, says that after one semester, he worries that he's falling behind his peers at his home university near Luxembourg. "I'm writing about topics and issues that will help no way in my future," says Rieger, 26. Bruce Stronach, president of Yokohama City University and the first Westerner to head a Japanese public university, says Japan is "not on the radar screen" of overseas students...
...team that doesn't look like the trademark of the Altria Group or a symbol on a super hero's cape - and they've got only 32 franchises to worry about. The tricolor flag has been done to death. When you get to the point that Luxembourg and the Netherlands are both a horizontal red, white and blue, with the only difference being that Luxembourg's blue is lighter - a Pantone 299c pigment to be precise - you know you're running out of ideas. The Kosovars, being mostly Albanians whose desire is less for independence as much...
...European Continent, countries with some of the highest tax rates - like Denmark, Germany and Sweden - sit side by side with those collecting some of the lowest, like Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. That's handy for Europeans who want to work in one country while they live, and save, in another. So execs and entrepreneurs can do business in London while settling in Monaco, the city-state famous for sunshine, glamour and zero tax on income or investment gains. Belgium, where some assets are exempt from capital-gains tax, is peppered with wealthy French escaping a tax rate that...