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...proposed scrapping the U.K.'s 20-year-old rebate from Brussels, worth an average $5.7 billion annually. The payback was negotiated in 1984 by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, when Britain was one of the club's poorest members. The U.K. has since enjoyed unparalleled economic growth - and newer, poorer E.U. members...
...When a rich brother goes to visit a poorer brother, the rich brother should not go empty-handed. We wanted to provide $100 million of support. But there was no legal way to do it." Kim Dae Jung, former South Korean President, in an interview with the Financial Times, in his most candid remarks to date concerning the secret payments to North Korea made while he was in office...
...time, history will weigh the fruits of his labors. Did this President leave the country better off or worse, richer or poorer, kinder or crueler, safer or in greater danger? But that is not Bush's concern. "A President shouldn't worry about how history will judge him," he says. And he gives every indication that it is God's judgment that concerns him. But that comes with a promise of forgiveness that history can easily withhold. --With reporting by David Van Biema/New York, Rita Healy/Denver, Betsy Rubiner/Des Moines, Nathan Thornburgh/Lowell and John F. Dickerson with Bush
...trouble. As an infant, he could see, if not understand, his father walking out on him and his teenage mother Aretha. At 6 months, he and his mother moved from his birthplace, Albany, Ga., to Greenville, Fla., where all he saw was poverty, with his family being even poorer than most, "nothing below us 'cept the ground," as he put it. At age 5, he saw his younger brother George drown in a washtub. At about that time Ray developed what may have been glaucoma. He soon found he could stare straight at the sun. By the time...
...Free-throw shooting] certainly hurt us,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “I think we needed some free-throw shooting tonight certainly. For being a good free-throw shooting team, it was one of our poorer [games...