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...While Canada’s “Marxism” functions as a punch line on the right side of the aisle, 46 states in the union have higher combined federal and state corporate tax rates than their counterparts across the border...
...that's not even taking into account the impediments stopping progress on the Chinese side. First there is the problem of rhetoric: the more Beijing vilifies the Dalai Lama personally ("jackal in monk's robes" for example, or a man with a "human face but the heart of a beast"), the harder it will be to do an about-face and convince the Chinese people that he's actually somebody China can do business with...
...life. The Fritzl family, in addition, has the huge burden of incest to deal with. Experts suggest that Felix, the youngest, may have the best chances of living a normal life. Kepplinger said the boy was a "very affectionate, bright child," who sticks close to his mother's side. The family is being given legal advice about the possibility of changing identities. The clinic itself is being guarded to protect their privacy. For now it is perhaps the simple things that may help to sustain them. On Sunday, 12-year-old Alexander, who lived upstairs, celebrated his birthday with...
...Since the election, militias claiming loyalty to the regime have fanned out across the country, intimidating, beating and even killing opposition supporters. The MDC says around 20 of its members have died, a number impossible to verify because foreign journalists continue to be banned from entering Zimbabwe. But neither side disputes that hundreds of opposition activists have been arrested, nor that the seizure of farms belonging to opposition supporters has resumed, nor that several foreign journalists have been arrested and deported. This nationwide campaign of repression seems aimed at coercing support for Mugabe, and providing him with a sufficient electoral...
...Bolivia beauty pageant, in the eyes of many government supporters, puts him in the company of the country's European-oriented elite. (That same year, Miss Bolivia, Gabriela Oviedo, also from the country's east, suggested Bolivia shouldn't be considered an indigenous nation: "I'm from the other side of the country. We are tall, and we are white people, and we know English.") Morales backers say it is precisely this disdain for the indigenous that is driving what they call the secessionist agenda behind Sunday's autonomy referendum - which is not legally sanctioned by the National Electoral Court...