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Reed, a Washington consultant, ran Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign
...political star in his own right. With a boom-box blaring the theme music from the series Dallas, Save the Rich members handed Sarkozy fils an award for "Best Daddy's Boy" and congratulated him on his work to protect France's cosseted élite. Video of the encounter ran on French TV for days. "The idea is to call attention in a fun and festive way to concrete problems and [the] unfair situations a lot of people face, but few think they can contest," says Karima Delli, a Black Thursday and Save the Rich member who was elected...
...significant number - but not everywhere. At TIME's request, Economy.com ran the numbers for 54 metro areas and compared their current price-to-rent ratios to what their ratios have been over the past 15 years. The result: in 21 cities, renting still looks to be the better bargain. Among the renter-friendly outposts are Baltimore; Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C.; Salt Lake City; San Antonio; Trenton, N.J.; Philadelphia; Honolulu; Seattle; and Portland...
...Farewell to a peacemaker," ran the headline of the Belfast Telegraph on Aug. 27. Outside the U.S., perhaps the warmest tributes to Ted Kennedy have been paid in Ireland, most of all in Northern Ireland, where he is credited - although far from unanimously - with helping bring about the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the political breakthrough that paved the way for Protestants and Catholics to share power...
...policy has a modern elegance to it. Cash for Clunkers didn't involve intricate algorithms or a 1,400-page appropriations bill. The only debate was over how much sugar was needed to sweeten the pot. That first billion was supposed to last a few months; when it ran out in a week, a bipartisan coalition voted to squirt $2 billion more into the pipeline. Here, finally, was stimulus policy Americans understood...