Word: marks
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...finance ministers, along with central-bank governors, are meeting this weekend near London to prepare for next month's summit and smooth out their differences. The summit will mark Obama's first visit to Europe since becoming President, and he will take with him a huge aura of expectation. But if leaders cannot agree on a common approach to fighting the crisis, their meeting could be nothing more than a glorified photo opportunity...
...kind of deal we could cut. I reminded him that children are often assigned this column as classroom reading and that many assistants of high-level executives spend their downtime at work searching for my old articles. I asked him how much it would have been worth to have Mark Twain write The Celebrated Pom Wonderful of Pom Wonderful County. Those Pomtinis are strong. (See the top 10 food trends...
...wasn't always so blessed. Out of office, Thomas Jefferson found himself buried under crippling debts; James Monroe died destitute; and Ulysses S. Grant, scammed by a Wall Street grifter and battling cancer, hawked his memoirs to Mark Twain to keep his family afloat. Not until 1958 did the Former Presidents Act award ex--Chief Executives a pension and staff...
...Until the shooting of Officer Carroll - as well as the double slaying at an Antrim barracks two nights earlier of British soldiers Sapper Mark Quinsey and Sapper Patrick Azimkar - it appeared that Northern Ireland's lengthy peace process had succeeded in ending the violent conflict known locally as the Troubles. Carroll was the first police officer to be killed by Northern Irish terrorists in over a decade. "I had begun to take the process for granted and to regard the peace as irreversible," says Lord Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queen's University Belfast and a legislator in Britain...
...Buddha Bar is part of a French franchise that made its mark with popular albums that mixed world-music elements with a lounge-y vibe. The international eateries serve up a pan-Asian menu and aesthetic that clearly uses the Buddha more as a cultural marker than as a religious icon. Restaurant souvenirs for sale include a Buddha snow globe - not the kind of thing a member of the faithful would be likely to purchase. Indeed, the Buddhist reverence toward compassion notwithstanding, a Middle Way might not be so easy to reach in the current climate in Jakarta...