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In the e-mails exchanged between the governor and his girlfriend, they trip over themselves to praise the other's virtues. She was "special and unique," "glorious"; he was a man of emotional generosity who "brought happiness and love to my life." These two humanitarians were engaged not only in...
Conservatives claim California is a high tax state. In fact, California's taxes are similar to other high-tech, industrial states. According to the non-partisan Legislative Analyst Office and the Tax Foundation, California has comparatively high sales taxes and rates for corporate income, but very low property taxes. State...
Maybe that's why many of the site's new members are female. Biderman says the proportion of women on the site has grown from 15% - when the service quietly launched in 2001 - to nearly 30% today. (See the 50 best websites of 2008.)
"I don't know how this thing got blown out of proportion." -Upon returning to the media firestorm in the U.S., before confessing to his affair (The State, June 24, 2009)
In contrast, East Asian economies have robust balance sheets, except for Japan. Unlike the U.S., China and South Korea do not need to print money to fund their stimulus packages. And their spending is geared toward the future rather than toward mopping up the excesses of the past, as the...