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...Some parts of his return voyage to his father's hometown were not that different from his maiden one. In a modest, tin-roofed house in a nearby clearing dotted with mango trees, Obama, 45, and his wife and daughters, Malia and Sasha, visited Sarah - "Granny" - and other relatives and shared a quick meal of chicken, porridge and cabbage. Obama told reporters gathered outside the house that he had apologized to his grandmother for all the attention she had received "because of me." "He's gone a long way," says Auma Obama, a social worker in London, who accompanied...
...estates of $540,000. France is even tougher. There, inheritance tax is levied in theory from the first euro passed on, but a series of tax-free thresholds apply to family members, including a €50,000 one for children of the deceased. The value of even a modest two-bedroom apartment in central Paris is enough to push families into a 30% tax bracket (the top rate for them is 40%, for estates valued at over €1.7 million). For nonfamily members and unmarried partners, the situation is even more complicated, with inheritance tax rising as high...
...Scotsman, who attempted the climb on a windy night and made it only halfway up, compared the work to wrapping a mountain with a bow. ("Beautiful mountain, could you take the bow off, please?") And even Farquhar admits the piece may have gone a step too far. His more modest projects--an illuminated path through a lovely Scottish glen, a festival of light showcasing Glasgow's architectural treasures--tend to be more successful, exploring hidden layers of meaning in familiar places by literally shedding new light on them. --By Michael Brunton/London
...lives of millions of poor people in Hyderabad. At the least, he should have been able to make a farm in the outback turn a profit. Instead, after losing one of the greatest fortunes in history, the last Nizam retired to Turkey, where, we are told, he lives a modest and anonymous life, and spends his time-quite appropriately-studying Roman ruins...
...hometowny charm, and yet is indisputably affluent and worldly. It's home to many successful executives working in nearby New York City. Here in Chappaqua, even with a tall security fence and Secret Service vehicles parked outside, the Clintons' Dutch Colonial (bought in 1999 for $1.7 million) can seem modest. "This is not a gossipy town," says Janet Stephens, a local artist who stopped on parade day to get an "update" of her year-old photo with Bill Clinton. "It's a Type A town," she says. And it's a predominantly Democratic one at that...