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...North Rhine-Westphalia with the deal last month. The individual provided a sample of the data, which authorities are now checking to determine its legitimacy. Details of the proposed deal were then leaked to the media, plunging Chancellor Angela Merkel's government into a public moral dilemma. Should it pay the $3.5 million the informant was reported to have demanded - which the media said could help the country recoup some $140 million in lost tax revenue - or turn down the offer because it amounted to rewarding criminal behavior? (See a TIME photo-essay on East Germany...
...torture people”) with criticism of political culture in general. We are taught how to draft an official apology that does not, in fact, apologize. We are given a politician’s guidebook to having a tryst with a prostitute and not getting caught (“Pay with cash. Preferably, Canadian.”) and how to make a controversial blog statement that will get you on TV. The book takes a few chapters to find its groove—Gorlin and Mirvish clearly have much more to work with when it comes to the actual campaign...
When my father was young he used to escape Brooklyn by going to Europe for the summer, taking his meager English teacher’s pay and using it all on a flight and two months of living abroad. He likes to tell us that back then nobody could e-mail you money and credit cards didn’t exist. I heard him recounting this once again to my college roommate who had come to stay the night at my house in Brooklyn the day before we would begin our own escape...
...problem is simple in that if you're an individual, a business owner or an entire state and you build your debt level to 70%, 80%, 90% of your revenues, you soon won't be able to pay the interest on your borrowing - much less the principle - and you'll default," says economist Marc Touati, deputy director of the Paris-based financial-services group Global Equities. "We're not there yet, especially for all the nations of Europe. But there are several, including France, that simply must cut spending, deficit and debt dramatically, and soon - or things will get very...
...around common problems of morality and relationships. If you share the conviction of Gene Hackman’s character in “Night Moves” that a Rohmer film is “kind of like watching paint dry,” you might do better to pay your respects to Segal, who died on January 17. During his career he taught at Harvard as well as Oxford, Princeton, and Yale; however, his scholarly work on classics and the history of comedy was overshadowed in the popular consciousness by his screenplay for the popular 1970 film about...