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...British public, long a Euro-skeptic bunch, are having none of it. According to a January poll by ICM for the BBC, 71% of Britons remain opposed to adopting Europe's single currency; more than two-thirds said the pound's slide made no difference to their thinking. "There's a long sentimental attraction to a coinage that has been around for such a large part of our history," says Nicholas Mayhew, a professor of monetary history at the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum. "I'd be surprised if all that is lost in a matter of months...
...arrested me for protesting. With this one, they've reached out to us to serve on transition teams. We're on the innovation and civil society team, the faith-based office, of course, but [we're also involved in] a lot of issue areas - foreign policy and criminal justice. None of us want to go into the Administration. We're being faithful to our own religious and prophetic obligations to challenge the powerful. But they are reaching out to us. (See Who's Who in Barack Obama's White House...
...None of this is to say that The Associate is a bad book. God knows it's not hard to read - with the exception of a miscalculated subplot about one of the frat brothers going to AA, it ticks along lightly and pleasantly - it's crafted and paced with the same signature glossy perfection that makes Grisham, book for book, probably the best-selling novelist in the world. It's just that it's not about anything. In fact it's amazing that anybody could put together a book that is this compulsively readable while at the same time being...
Since Bernard Madoff's arrest last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has busted three new Ponzi scams, though none are as spectacular as Madoff's $50 billion whopper. (See pictures of Madoff's demise...
...says Estelle, a cosmetics sales woman in a Paris store who asks that her last name not be used. "The new owner is now seeking volunteers for 35 hours at no extra pay, as well as people for extra-time work for more pay. My fear is, before long none of that will be voluntary any more...