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...more courageous choice for the person who most affected the world for good or ill would have been America's neoconservative policymakers, who completely changed the geopolitical scheme of things in 2003. Of course, that might not have been a feel-good cover. I look forward to Time's recovering its backbone. Roland Fuca Ottawa, Canada...
...Playing the five-men in the Dartmouth scheme of things is a very challenging thing mentally,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “There’s a lot of footwork stuff... There’s a lot of movement from high...
...Even While Admitting Guilt, Rose Still Hustles - Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News points out that Rose's last book contained a completely different story and charges this release as being part of a simple scheme to get elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame...
...Still, signs of progress are everywhere. The once-dysfunctional phone system, for example, has become far more efficient since the telecommunications sector began opening up to private competition in the 1990s. The quality of roads has improved, thanks to an ambitious "golden quadrilateral" highway-building scheme that is connecting India's four largest cities. The government has also been setting up Special Economic Zones, havens that offer speedier regulatory approvals, low taxes, guaranteed power?and shelter from socialist-era labor laws that require a company with more than 100 employees to get government permission to lay off workers...
...much more support is out there for the scheme, dreamed up personally by Thaksin, remains to be seen. Thaksin has appointed a corps of private sales agents and told Thai embassy officials to hawk the cards to CEOs and celebrities around the world. But few travel-industry analysts believe he can achieve his goal of selling 1 million cards in the next 10 years. The program is also not without controversy. A key privilege for cardholders is the opportunity to "buy" residential land in Thailand (it will apparently be held in the name of the Thailand Privilege...