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...estimate the very wealthy contribute from $10 billion to more than $30 billion a year to the U.K. economy. That's a big impact from a small segment of the population. It's estimated that the top 0.1% of earners in Britain control as much as 4% of the nation's wealth - and over half of them are from somewhere else. According to the latest Forbes list of the world's billionaires, 17 of Britain's 41 billionaires are foreigners. They're drawn to the country in part by a tax break that exempts anyone born outside Britain from paying...
...nation's increasingly polychromatic mix could be an advantage for Obama. As with many social changes, though, the multiracial reality precedes the vocabulary we usually deploy in talking about race. All his life, Obama has faced both the challenges and the advantages of being biracial--the subtle hints in the African-American community that he isn't black enough, the racism in the white community that, thank goodness, he isn't too black. In his autobiography, Dreams from My Father, Obama wrote that "when people who don't know me well, black or white, discover my background...
...Bhutto supporters try to link him to a supposed plot to kill her. Accusing him of plotting Bhutto's death is wrong. Cars have been burned, and Musharraf symbols have been destroyed out of hatred and anger. Martial law might be needed to prevent total chaos in the nation. Extremists must not be allowed to win the day upon the body of Bhutto. Crystal Dueker, FARGO...
Partly because India's matrimonial sites have already succeeded in wooing the nation, Western companies have hesitated at the door. "India is a very different business, and we just haven't got there yet," says Match's Enraght-Moony. For instance, sites there make matches on the basis of factors unfamiliar to outsiders, including caste, language and "character"--a euphemism for chastity. About 15% of profiles are filled in not by the prospective bride or groom but by their parents. And now Indian sites are challenging Western matchmaking companies on their own turf. Shaadi CEO Vibhas Mehta says...
Like Wisseltier, we find ourselves rather stirred by McCain. Having held public office for more than 25 years, McCain still appears vigorous, energetic and ready to lead the nation at the age of seventy-one. Although we cannot support all of his policy positions, we believe that, all things considered, McCain is the clear choice for the Republican nomination...