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...flight back east from Perth, Rudd glances at the necktie that he has cast aside before landing in Melbourne, where he will deliver another slew of speeches. He rubs his eyes, then launches into a defense of international activism. "You can sit around quietly on the global diplomatic circuit and get nowhere," he says, "or you can ball up a few ideas, some of which have some prospects." It's not a bad blueprint for any nation navigating a place in this globalized world. Makes you wonder whether Australia couldn't export that having-a-go spirit along with...
Spurred by a budget crunch in 2002, Oregon became the first state to repeal its blue laws banning Sunday liquor sales. In response to the recession, a slew of other states are weighing whether to fall off the Sunday wagon, including Texas, Georgia, Connecticut and Alabama. Utah, though, is not one of them...
...this country, in October 2000—sex workers have to be at least 18 years of age in order to legally work in brothels and behind windows. Through the course of my research on the situation over the past two weeks, I discovered intense opposition among a slew of Dutch academics, women’s rights advocates, and former prostitutes to a recent proposal to increase the age standard for sex workers from...
Palin, Gov. Sarah • American flag is repeatedly dissed by •mocking Photoshopped image of provokes easily ignited fury of, which - as anyone with the slightest comprehension of human nature could have predicted - provokes a slew of even more viciously mocking Photoshopped images of • secret bleeding of • Vanity Fair profile of will delight non-fans...
...Porsche and Piech families together own about 50% of the common stock of Porsche Automobil Holding SE, which in turns owns more than half of VW stock. And the two companies have been working ever more closely together, including sharing a slew of joint operations. The Porsche Cayenne SUV and its VW equivalent, the Touareg, for example, share the same chassis and are built in the same plant. (See the most important cars of all time...