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...strained his finances; he also admitted that he didn't have his own bank account at the time, later adding that he had stashed this cash in a safe. It was the kind of scandal that would sink most politicians. But Ahern's ratings didn't drop. They rose, prompting Blair's spluttered exclamation. Even the Teflon Taoiseach's opponents doubt he's pursuing a gilded lifestyle. A man of simple tastes, Ahern says his biggest indulgence is "a ticket to some good football match." Yet he is anything but a simple man. Quick on his feet and with...
...banker for half of the Premier League's clubs. "Not all clubs are making a profit, but there's not so much of an excuse now." Profitability would no doubt be helped if clubs could bring wages under control. Over the past decade, according to Deloitte, Premier League wages rose an average of 20% a year. Top earners like Chelsea's Michael Ballack and Thierry Henry of Arsenal reportedly pocket around $12.5 million each year. But in 2004-05, for the first time since 1992, total wages dipped, and the ratio of wages to revenue is lower than...
...take for granted? Having been born in Zambia, I know. I am disgusted by the fact that your readers can so easily ponder tossing aside the E.U. just because they sit every Saturday morning in their comfortable armchairs and read Time without having to worry about anything. Jack Robert Rose, SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND...
From the very beginning, David L. Halberstam ’55 seemed destined for a career in journalism. Elected a news editor for The Crimson his freshman year, Halberstam rose through the ranks to garner the position of managing editor his junior year. It was his tireless devotion to the paper—sometimes even at the expense of his grades—and his endless enthusiasm that set him apart to those who knew...
...first two years Yeltsin got quite far indeed. With Gorbachev's backing, he rose to the (nonvoting) rank of candidate membership in the ruling-party Politburo in 1986, but when he tried to apply his reformist zeal to the top echelons he ran into serious trouble. The climax came in October 1987 with a speech to a closed meeting of the 300-member Central Committee that cost him his party positions and started him on the road that led to the 1991 White House confrontation. While no official text of the speech was published at the time, presumably because...