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...southern French city of Montpellier went wild as Socialist Party leader François Hollande and former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn extolled the merits of the treaty. Mention of party brethren who back the no vote drew disapproving groans. "This is a show of force," explained Montpellier shop owner and Socialist Party member Jean-Claude Arnel. "We're here to demonstrate just how big our commitment to Europe is." Why so much controversy now over the constitution when President Jacques Chirac has said that the country as a whole won't vote on the document until well into next...
Bush long ago started down this road. During the 2000 campaign, he argued that "ownership in our society should not be an exclusive club. Independence should not be a gated community. Everyone should be part owner in the American Dream." Last year he signed into law health savings accounts, which allow workers to build a kitty that can be rolled over from year to year and can be used to pay for unreimbursed medical expenses. Bush wants to boost homeownership too by making nothing-down loans available to low-income buyers and by helping anyone who is willing to pick...
...Teachers, police officers, businessmen, tradesmen, a child-care center owner and religious ministers figure among those accused of buying the images. Several more are believed to have been producing their own child pornography in backyard studios; six have committed suicide after being charged or questioned about their involvement. Away from their computers, the suspects led outwardly normal lives as fathers, husbands, brothers and boyfriends. Deep in what they thought was the anonymity of cyberspace, however, they were amassing huge libraries of images. But theirs were not the only eyes scanning the websites...
...local children to make his own pornography; also under investigation were four Queensland police officers, one of whom killed himself after being served with a summons. A New South Wales teacher allegedly set up a video camera behind a mirror in a children's changing room; in Victoria the owner of three child-care centers was charged; and in Perth detectives discovered more than 350,000 images and hundreds of videotapes of child pornography in the home of a self-employed computer expert. The man, Raymond John Belcher, 36, has pleaded guilty to the charges and will be sentenced early...
...Informal finance isn't just for mom-and-pop shops. Wenzhou's biggest restaurant, the 200-table Golden Fields Village, opened in May and specializes in shark-fin soup, giant snails and stingrays. Owner Wu Jianguan started the business by borrowing $100,000 from banks by mortgaging his home. But that wasn't enough to pay for the floor-to-ceiling fish tanks and staff of 150 hostesses in purple evening gowns, so he borrowed five times more from friends at higher rates. The cornerstones of such informal lending are relationships far stronger than Wu's connections to the bank...