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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a mouthpiece for the mullahs. I can't vouch for the factuality of the Strait of Hormuz dustup, but I have no doubt about what Iran's ruling clerics want: Shari'a and the rule of the caliphate. Richard Mogelson, MINNEAPOLIS...
...there was one surprising new entry on the list: the United Kingdom. The IMF was merely recognizing what wealthy foreigners in Britain have known for years. While British citizens shoulder taxes of up to 40%, residents who weren't born there can take advantage of the nondomicile - or nondom - rule, which means they're only taxed on income made in or brought into the country. With most of their cash safely tucked away in offshore trusts, foreigners can live in Britain virtually tax free...
...works here should pay their fair share." Raising taxes for those who can't vote might be a canny political move, but economically it may backfire. The Treasury reckons some 3,000 registered nondoms - out of a total of 115,000 - will pull up stakes when the new rule kicks in on April 6. Britain's wealth managers are more pessimistic, predicting that nondoms will leave in droves, taking billions out of the economy and affecting everything from property prices to spending on luxury goods. The annual fee isn't official yet, and won't be until after...
Under Déby's rule, Chadians began to enjoy stability for the first time. Oil promised real wealth, even schools and clinics. But hopes soured when Déby fixed the 2001 elections and Transparency International ranked Chad as the world's most corrupt country (alongside Bangladesh). Déby faced down mutinies at home, but the fuse for the current conflict was lit with the 2003 insurrection in Darfur, led in part by his own Zaghawa tribesmen...
...more local Pakistani politicians such as Nawaz Sharif. She used her many years in exile to address think-tanks, policy makers and academics in the West, her Harvard credentials underlining her perceived reliability. Newspapers the world over spent more time on her privileged education than the specifics of her rule. Harvard would thus do well to realize the way its brand is used in the rest of the world. Bhutto used it to perpetuate a ‘civilizing’ idea, and a starry-eyed myth of democratic leadership that was demonstrably false...