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...Europe. He points to a trio of well-to-do neighbors. "There are three countries around Scotland's shores: Ireland, Iceland and Norway - all small countries, all in the top six wealthiest nations on earth in terms of gdp per head," he says. "Small nations like Malta and Slovenia sit at the top table in the E.U., and Scotland is in the side room while the U.K. government negotiates...
...Browns' paid for Villa in August, Lerner got last season's 16th-best team in England, complete with tumbling revenue and attendance. So while he spies an "untapped market," he means Birmingham, not Beijing. Compared with other Premier League clubs, he tells a handful of reporters in a rare sit-down with the press, "we have a different geography and a different set of expectations...
...undeniable once you've encountered it. My grandmother has lived here for almost nine decades, through World War II and the Marcos years. One afternoon, while stuck in traffic on Roxas Boulevard, she suddenly exclaims 'Maganda!' (Beautiful!). I look to where she is pointing: a few scraggly, nondescript bushes sit on the divide between a choking 12-lane thoroughfare. But then I look closer: at the tips of the sparsely covered branches are clusters of tiny, vivid scarlet buds. Amid this congested, often dilapidated city, they're right there, just waiting to be noticed...
...anything but beneficial? Do they know that citizens of less developed countries seek a sense of security that Europeans take for granted? Having been born in Zambia, I know. I am disgusted by the fact that your readers can so easily ponder tossing aside the E.U. just because they sit every Saturday morning in their comfortable armchairs and read Time without having to worry about anything. Jack Robert Rose, SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND...
...backpack got confiscated for being a potential bomb. I decided that the day had already gone so wrong that it couldn’t possibly get any worse. The flight would be fine, I’d get some school work done, and maybe I would even get to sit next to some attractive, post-Cabo, sun-kissed student, returning to Boston rested and ready to begin the last few weeks of school...