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...mortgage and I work really hard - 70 or 80 hours a week - and they take a helluva lot of tax from me. But I never seem to see much for it." At this moment, the chill wind feels like a dark foreboding for the nine-year prime ministership of Helen Clark...
...worst international financial crisis for more than 70 years," she said in a televised debate with Key on Oct. 14. But many New Zealanders are buying National's line that the Clark government squandered the boom times by granting only a single round of tax cuts in nine years. Consequently, New Zealand's best and brightest are fleeing the country in droves (1 in 4 of its university graduates lives overseas) for places like Australia, where wages are one-third higher...
...route to a possible back-to-back Ivy League Championship, Dartmouth will try to seek its first taste of victory this season. Unless the Big Green increases overall offensive production and stiffens up on defense, it likely will extend the third longest losing streak in Division I-AA to nine games. “So far, as well as can be expected, obviously, we’re frustrated and expectations have not been met, but also realistic in that we’re playing a lot of young players,” Teevens said. “We have...
...long troubled northeastern corner of India is seeing an escalation of violence even as the rest of the country contends with a series of terror bombings over the last few weeks. On Thursday, a series of co-ordinated bomb blasts in the Indian state of Assam - nine of them detonated in four cities in the span of 15 minutes - killed at 61 people and injured at least 300. The question now is whether the perpetrators of the attacks were regional separatists or a wider network of radical jihadists...
...Seventy-nine years ago this week, the New York Stock Exchange experienced the worst financial panic the country had ever seen. There have been more crashes since - with bigger numbers and bigger losses - but nothing quite rivals the terror and devastation of Black Tuesday: October...