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...Duckenfield notes that political conservatives such as Sarkozy and Merkel have a significant ally to their cause in British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who, in spite of his nominally leftist Labour Party affiliation, has always been a market liberal. As recently as 2007, Brown opposed European calls for better regulation of hedge funds-investment schemes that had helped made London Europe's finance capital. But on Sunday, Brown wrote in Britain's Observer newspaper that finance markets and banks should be obliged to factor the collective interest of long-term economic gain into their activities, an effort he said should...
...spite of the technicality, the government made it clear the expulsion order was motivated by Williamson's negation of the Holocaust. The order, signed by Immigration Director Martin Arias Duval, states that "anti-Semitism is an ideological aberration which has cost millions of lives throughout history." Williamson's views "deeply offended Argentine society," the government said...
...spite of its unfathomable cost, 51 percent of the American people still support the stimulus package. And the faux drama about bipartisanship played well for the president. A healthy 61 percent of Americans blame Republicans for the lack of bipartisanship, while a still greater majority, 66 percent, continues to believe that Obama is bringing “a new approach.” With no serious concessions on principle, Obama is now being given credit for having walked the walk of his post-partisan talk, and his failure to achieve it thus far is being blamed on the other guys...
Monumental tragedies have a way of towering over a place, casting a shadow that dims both history and people. Former New Yorker staff writer Dan Baum's Nine Lives is a reminder of New Orleans as it existed before - and still exists in spite of - its darkest hour. After Hurricane Katrina, Baum conducted nearly 400 interviews with more than 200 subjects to recreate the experiences of nine New Orleanians, not only in the harrowing post-storm chaos of lawlessness and death, but in the four decades leading up to Katrina, starting with Hurricane Betsy in 1965. As the years roll...
...rapidly growing course preparatory Web site, FinalsClub.org, is moving forward with a plan to expand its site in spite of controversy over the legality of the venture...