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...creeping altruism, the notion of giving back is still not as ingrained as it is in the U.S., largely because Europeans are used to paying so much in taxes. John Logan, who runs a foundation that Britain's Vodafone set up in 2002 and is urging its subsidiaries to do the same, has a hard time explaining the need for corporate philanthropy in some parts of Europe. For example, in Sweden, where taxes are among the highest in Europe, Logan says, "persuading our friends that they should be encouraged to give is quite a difficult...
Chavez--who faces a national recall referendum on Aug. 15--warned the U.S. this year that he'll turn off the oil spigot if the Bush Administration threatens to invade Venezuela over either politics or oil. U.S. officials dismiss that notion as absurd, but Rodriguez echoes the concern: "Many people here fear what happened in Iraq could happen to Venezuela." Still, Rodriguez, an attorney and a classical-music lover, emphasizes that Venezuela "doesn't want price volatility" and wants to continue being the U.S.'s most reliable supplier. "There is no contradiction between a strong alliance with OPEC," he says...
...simple truths (which will often be shameless oversimplifications of serious policy matters). John Kerry will struggle through tortured complexities, like his explanation of his various positions on the $87 billion: he wanted the appropriation to be paid for by a tax on the wealthy, and when that notion failed, he voted against the bill. But he wouldn't have voted against it if his had been the deciding vote; he would never have stiffed the troops. And on and on. If that's the campaign, Bush wins...
...much in the way of WMD, no one in Whitehall re-examined whether the case still stacked up - a lapse about which Butler said only, "We have recorded our surprise." Blair said he "accepted full personal responsibility ? for any errors that were made," but he didn't apologize. The notion of resigning over such grand mistakes now seems a quaint relic of a different constitutional era. Instead, Blair renovated his case for war, telling M.P.s it was good to get rid of Saddam in any event. Are people buying his argument? In two by-elections last week, Labour lost...
...current enthusiasm can be traced in part, oddly enough, to last summer's high-profile flop of a market that was supposed to help predict future terrorist attacks. A public backlash killed that Pentagon project a few months before its debut, but not before the media broadcast the notion that useful information embedded within a group of people could be drawn out and organized via a marketplace. Says George Mason's Hanson, who helped design the market: "People noticed." Another predictive market, the Iowa Electronic Markets at the University of Iowa, has been around since 1988. That bourse has accepted...