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...will be smaller, forcing people to save more for the future. The high prices for gasoline do not help the consumer either. As your story reported, with the compromises the unions and companies like Siemens and DaimlerChrysler are making to keep jobs in Germany, higher wages are not in sight. So I hope for an even bigger export boom that might create new jobs, because before that happens, only the tourists can increase consumption in Germany. Jessica Neumann Berlin Exonerating Blair In your story on the conclusions of Lord Butler's report - that Tony Blair took Britain...
...month since the U.S. handed sovereignty back to Iraqis, democratic rule is still far from sight. Amid complaints from Iraqis like Abu Tbikh and fears that the national conference could turn into a farce, overseers from the United Nations late last week persuaded the Iraqis to postpone the meeting until Aug. 15. The hope is that by then, conference organizers will be able to institute a set of rules that everyone can tolerate. But the delay of Iraq's first meaningful democratic exercise is still a worrying sign?and throws into question whether the country will be ready for elections...
Choice anecdote: The event organizers piled up mountains of sugary sweets for the guests to take home as they depart the hotel. (I suppose this goes along with the whole “kids” theme.) I’m taking in the sight of this big rock candy mountain (as it were) when some young folk from the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, a children’s choir that performed earlier at the event, run over to sample a few Fruit Roll...
Finally, as those kept out of the convention made their way out past the black metal barriers around the FleetCenter, some were met by the oddest sight yet—a red, white and blue bandana-wearing man shouting “Win with Dean! Lose with Kerry! Draft Dean...
...Beirut, the Sri Lankan nanny riding in the back of the Mercedes or the Range Rover with the kids is an almost ubiquitous sight. And it’s not uncommon to see young upper-class women walking unashamedly in the streets here with big bandages over their noses: plastic surgery is huge in Beirut and a new nose is as much a status symbol as a new car. Expensive anything—cell phones, clothes, cars, clubs—is in. Beirut is shallow, superficial and even a little tacky in its ostentatious display of beauty and wealth...