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...finance professor at Michigan State University, finds that especially in down markets, the fortunes of multinationals across the globe tend to move together. That's because they all sell their stuff everywhere. That's less true of small companies, though, which are more hinged to local economies. So for maximum diversification think small when you think international. Two top-rated funds that invest in smaller foreign companies are T. Rowe Price International Discovery and Wanger International Small...
That last figure troubled the appeals court. The Cleveland program offers vouchers worth a maximum of just $2,250 so that not much money will get siphoned away from public schools, thus placating voucher opponents. The voucher amount more than covers Catholic-school tuition, which in Cleveland averages $1,200 a year (because of church subsidies and teacher salaries about half as high as the public school average). But tuition at even the least expensive nonsectarian private schools is more than $5,000. Clarence Gilmore, 30, a fire fighter with two children at St. Adalbert's, says, "I would love...
Stevens's pessimism has been widely echoed. Indeed, everyone fervently hoped that the court would be able to find some sort of consensus and ensure maximum possible credibility for the next president, protecting the court's image in the process. That hope has evaporated; despite the spin of Bush's advisors calling this a 7-2 ruling, the reality is perfectly clear. In the end, the justices were split right down the middle on the ideological and partisan lines that were crystal-clear even before they granted Bush's ludicrous request for an emergency stay based on the potential "irreparable...
Both Sandel and Kishlansky plan their teaching for maximum effect...
...European side of the conflict with the U.S. over beef imports. "What I don't like about McDonald's France," says an overweight U.S. cowboy in one ad, "is that it doesn't buy American beef." The ad specifies that French McDonald's uses only French beef, to "guarantee maximum hygienic conditions" - Europe is citing health concerns in its bid to ban the imports of hormone-treated American beef...