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When the check arrives at the Patpong Thai restaurant in Chingford, England, Reg Burrows usually pays with plastic. But Burrows, the owner of an industrial-storage-supply firm, doesn't pull out Visa or American Express. He pulls out Bartercard. As a member of the Bartercard trading network, Burrows receives "trade pounds" instead of cash whenever his firm, Global Equipment Trading, works for fellow Bartercard clients. He can then spend that credit at any of the 75,000 member businesses around the world, including Patpong Thai, where he frequently entertains clients. So far this year, Burrows has exchanged around...
...seeing a new kind of show-biz family, a sort of reality-era von Trapps, for whom living in public is a given and privacy negotiable. We can expect to see only more of this in the future. People have got to make a living, after all, and families pull together. They do it for one another. They do it for the show...
...similar script this week coming off two tough losses against top-10 teams, but Harvard failed to take advantage of its opportunity to pull even with the Big Green in the Ivy League standings...
...which these books traffic reduces perceptions of the region to little more than cartoonish, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”-esque stereotypes.Harsh? Perhaps. Yet the breach between the possibilities for “diaspora” fiction and the lackluster reality is disappointingly vast. To pull a book from the shelf at random, take Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie’s 2002 “Salt and Saffron.” “The stories that [narrator] Aliya tells are full of the aroma of pilafs and the mouth-melting softness of kebabs...
...Though midterm elections tend to be referendums about the party in power, Republicans know that if they have any shot at regaining the majority, they have to give voters a reason to pull the lever for them. Most observers who track congressional races predict Democratic losses of 20 seats or more, and the latest generic matchups by Rasmussen polls show Republicans leading Democrats 42% to 38%. Still, Democrats control the House by a margin of 40 seats, so taking back the House would require a pretty major wave of discontent over the next year. And while polls show that Americans...