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...cash. Entire teams are not worth that much. ESPN.com broke it down: Rodriguez' contract would be the 13th most valuable baseball franchise. It would rank fifth in the NBA; only the New York Rangers are more dear in the NHL. At least it falls $50 million short of the poorest NFL team...
Vicente Fox Posada's biggest enemy might, perhaps, be his people's high expectations of a new political order in Mexico. But the mammoth odds against his efforts to reform his country's torpid economic and political system give him a Quixotic sheen, which has everyone from the poorest peasants in Oaxaca to the most worldly wise diplomats in Mexico City ready to extend him a generous line of political credit...
...tell him about what would happen to poor kids under his bill. If you had a President who just didn't get it, that's one thing. But his willingness to sign a welfare bill that he knew was high-stakes gambling with the lives and futures of our poorest children showed that the moral compass wasn't there. And that's linked to the other defining moment, dragging us through Monica, which also happened because the moral compass wasn't there. The problem was not having an affair. From a religious point of view, people make mistakes. Jesus...
Sachs said that global capitalism neglected the needs of the world's poorest countries...
...past decade, as the foster-care population has soared, California and other states have contracted out more and more services for their poorest children. In theory, kids should be safer because private agencies have the flexibility and funding to deal better with children. In Los Angeles County, for example, state-licensed foster homes had 1 caseworker for every 70 kids. Private agencies routinely have 1 social worker dealing with only 12 to 15 kids. But the private agencies have presented a new set of problems...