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...immature democracy, an ultra-rich and clever person could manipulate elections by buying votes from poor people, then take advantage of loopholes in the constitution; and with complicated, time-consuming government procedures helping him, he could stay in power. He could use his position to fill senior government posts in the civil service, law enforcement and the military with his followers. That is what I believe happened in Thailand before the coup; the hijacking of our government in a very slick and seemingly lawful way. Maung Maung Myint Pathomthani, Thailand...
What no one in Wolfsburg wants to admit is that VW may have a broken business model in the U.S. Unlike BMW or Mercedes-Benz, VW can't charge the rich prices necessary to offset the cost of exporting from Germany. And unlike its German rivals, VW doesn't make cars in the U.S.--its one American plant shut in 1988--a problem given the dollar's slump versus the euro...
...some trips he made to the tool aisle at Home Depot (one shot guarantees you'll never look at bolt cutters the same way again). In the scene that won Roth the Most Memorable Mutilation prize at this month's Scream Awards, a kind of horror Golden Globes, a rich American pays to blowtorch a Japanese girl's eyeball. "I don't know if it's medically accurate that the white goo would come out of her eye," says Roth. "It just looked so disgusting we had to go with it." He later found out that torture by blowtorch...
...action is yielding some nice paydays for policyholders who want out from under their insurance premiums. Those most likely to strike a rich deal are over 60 who have at least $250,000 of coverage and have suffered a decline in health. Blumenthal might have got five times as much as he did had his health deteriorated in a significant...
...than a dollar a day. Are we really so sure we know where compassion ends and colonialism begins? One retired nurse in Northern Malawi was blunt: "We can't afford to look after the thousands of babies that are being orphaned every day," she told the London Independent. "If rich people like Madonna take just one child it will be a major boost for Malawi...