Word: rich
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...describe the play. He lovingly describes the new cricket stadium he has built in Antigua, complete with an American-style hall of fame. He revels in dropping the names of Caribbean cricket stars he now counts as his friends. But his spending on Twenty20 is not just a rich fan's self-indulgence: he says the sport is the perfect vehicle for the Stanford brand name, allowing him to expand his business to new markets...
...wing talk radio (as I do), you can hear the troops being rallied. O.K., so maybe McCain isn't really our type. But he's our nominee. And consider the alternative! Obama is the most radical left-winger since the French Revolution. He is a fanatical leveler who hates rich people and despises success. Plus, he's an élitist snob. And his wife thinks she's better than everyone else because she's black. Truth to tell, the radio guys would rather have had Clinton to rail against, out of habit if nothing more. They spent most of their...
...real loss in Toyako was the chance to fully enlist big developing nations like China and India in the fight against climate change. In the weeks leading up to the summit, these countries indicated that they would be amenable to broad, long-term emissions reductions?provided that rich nations agreed to their own short-term cuts. The U.S. (along with Canada and Australia) nixed the idea, and so the developing nations conspicuously did not agree to the G-8's 2050 target...
...this country," Bob Barr told me over breakfast in midtown Manhattan recently. It's his best pitch, an oft-used explanation of why the Libertarian Party can leverage the country's many discontents. The strongest part of his message is the delivery. Barr is a level man with a rich, assuring voice. Even in a D.C.-standard-issue dark three-piece suit, there's something warm and tweedy about him--a perfectly calm spokesman for the often cantankerous ideas of his party...
...that may not be enough to make a difference in 2008. But Barr's running mate, Wayne Allyn Root, says the party can ride a wave of new followers into the next election cycle. Just three years ago, after all, he wrote a book called Millionaire Republican: Why Rich Republicans Get Rich--and How You Can Too! If he can convert, he says, anyone...