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...With millions of new cars and fledgling drivers clogging mainland China's transportation system?there were 16.7 million new vehicles and 11 million new motorists last year?strict enforcement of new traffic laws is crucial. Unfortunately, as is often the case elsewhere in Asia, enforcement is the weakest link in the road-safety chain. "Police corruption is widespread in China. That's no secret," says Liu, a crew-cut, 37-year-old traffic cop who declined to give his full name. "It's especially true in the traffic section. If you help spring a murderer, you're going to feel...
There are other kinks in Europe's fledgling philanthropy as well. There are strict limits in some countries on the amount of donations that companies can deduct from their taxes. In the U.S. foundations must disburse 5% of their assets annually to qualify for not-for-profit status. In Europe there's no such stipulation. For example, the Robert Bosch Foundation, Germany's largest, gave just over 1% of its $6 billion in assets last year...
...financially. If he finds what you seem to suspect--that his money is going to pay for luxuries these women cannot afford and build up his sister's equity--he should insist on other arrangements (selling the house, for example) and make any future contributions contingent on a strict accounting...
...soon he got sent away. Feeling that English boarding schools were too stuffy, Rosemary and Richard sent John to the Institut Montana Zugerberg near Zurich, a strict place with only a handful of English-speaking boys. "At first I was homesick as hell," Kerry says. Raised a Catholic, Kerry says he found comfort and company in church, becoming quite religious and serving as an altar boy. "I remember him writing me to remember to say my prayers," Peggy recalls. Cam, on the other hand, recalls how John learned to swear in Italian. "That part I do remember. Him coming back...
...federal power he had deplored in opposition. He recalled that a decade earlier, in Washington's Cabinet, Jefferson had seemed like a man who knew he was destined to inherit an estate--in this case, the presidency--and didn't wish to deplete it. In fact, Jefferson, the strict constructionist, freely exercised the most sweeping powers as President. Nothing in the Constitution, for instance, permitted the Louisiana Purchase. Hamilton noted that with rueful mirth...