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...aren't the only ones who can't make ends meet. The promoters behind F1's 19 races have seen their fees for hosting an event double to almost $30 million in the past five years - $45 million for newer races in Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Korea. As a result, they've jacked up prices for the best seats over a race weekend to an average of $722, a rise of 50% from three years ago. Average three-day attendance fell from 187,724 in 2008 to 161, 613 in 2009. "In Bahrain, all you could see in the stands...
Iran is the 21st century equivalent of 1930s Russia - a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The Iranians haven't stumbled upon this mystifying state coincidentally, and the enigma isn't the result of outsiders' failure to try to understand them. Rather, the Iranian government has a deliberate policy aimed at confusing the outside world about its goals and decision-making processes. "There is an intention out there to confuse," a noted Iranian professor told me in Tehran a few years ago. The rulers in Tehran think that opacity and the perception of unpredictability buy them security...
...appointed rounds"--doesn't mention Saturday mail delivery. Because that may soon be history. On March 2, Postmaster General John Potter announced that major cuts, including an end to weekend service, would be needed to prevent a projected $238 billion loss over the next decade that is largely a result of fewer letters and packages being sent. It's the first time in USPS history that a lack of mail has been cause for major concern...
...speak to angry, working-class people ... They don't know how ... Along the way, these new-style Democrats did little as their allies in organized labor were scythed down by organized money ... They have permitted nothing less than the decimation of their own grass-roots social movement. As a result, in large parts of America, there is no liberal presence...
Hoping to quiet calls for his permanent removal as the result of an ethics investigation, Democratic Representative Charles Rangel of New York said on March 3 that he would temporarily step down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. While the probe has already confirmed that Rangel violated congressional gift rules by going on two corporate-sponsored Caribbean trips, the list of additional allegations before the panel is a lengthy one, including tax violations involving his Dominican Republic home and the illegal use of a New York City apartment as a campaign office...