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Keep your head up and chin straight," Diana Mather tells her pupils at the Finishing Academy. They are balancing hefty copies of Castles of Scotland on their noggins. "Eyes ahead. Now walk!" They're polished. They're poised. They'll get there...
Keep your head up and chin straight," Diana Mather tells her pupils at the Finishing Academy. They are balancing hefty copies of Castles of Scotland on their noggins. "Eyes ahead. Now walk!" They're polished. They're poised. They'll get there. Sound like an old-fashioned finishing school? It is, with one twist: the pupils are all men. Image consultant Mather and recruitment specialist Penny Edge tutor men, who range in age from 19 to 50, in modern manners at Britain's first male finishing school, founded in October 2005. "In these days of equality, what's good...
...economic power in 2050 [Feb. 6] omitted one factor: democracy. Does anyone really think that the world's largest economy could be managed by the Chinese Communist Party? The creativity of democracy, whether it is in India or the U.S., will be what leads the way. Richard Gordon Peebles, Scotland...
...economic power in 2050 [Feb. 6] omitted one factor: democracy. Does anyone really think that the world's largest economy could be managed by the Chinese Communist Party? The creativity of democracy, whether it is in India or the U.S., will be what leads the way. Richard Gordon Peebles, Scotland The West seems finally to have acknowledged the growing influence of India and China as major global economic powers. Both nations, however, are marred by real problems that need solutions. There are tragic undercurrents caused mainly by lack of infrastructure, rampant corruption and the absence of realistic programs to combat...
...that the Vice President had been calling the shots, and that McClellan's own approach had been different in the past. "I think it's always important to get information out as quickly as possible," he said. "I think of a similar incident when the President was in Gleneagles, Scotland, and he had a biking accident with a police officer there, and I quickly tried to give that information to the press through the pool reporter and provide that information to you all." Late-night comics had their predicted field day. "We can't get Bin Laden," David Letterman said...