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...valued at over €1.7 million). For nonfamily members and unmarried partners, the situation is even more complicated, with inheritance tax rising as high as 60%. And unlike many other countries, where the tax is levied when assets are handed down a generation, husbands and wives in France are subject to death duties on what they inherit from their spouses. That has long rankled some French lawmakers and lobbyists. In October 2003, a group of French Deputies from President Jacques Chirac's center-right party proposed a parliamentary resolution to abolish inheritance tax altogether. It went nowhere. Another initiative last...
...attached a teen is to his or her partner might offer choices such as "I would rather be with X than anyone else," "I am very attracted to X," "X always seems to be on my mind" and so on. The researchers then used the responses to analyze each subject's feelings about his or her love life. Each teenager was assigned scores in categories like "communications awkwardness," "confidence in navigating romantic relationships," "heightened emotionality," "influence" and "power." Having translated the interpersonal dynamics of puppy love into cold, hard numbers, Giordano could then add them up, read the results...
...frightening failure to understand what motivates political Islam. So you see parallels with the current situation? Speaking to one of the Guildford Four recently, his reaction is: "Those poor guys, those Muslims - that's exactly what happened to us. Has nobody learned?" The Guildford Four's story was the subject of a film, In the Name of the Father, with Emma Thompson playing you - yet you recoil from publicity. Did that make you feel uncomfortable? I haven't seen the film, although I thought it was extremely important that the story of the Conlon family be told. I think...
...Favorite topics of discussion include General Adnan Daoud, a Lebanese security commander who was caught on videotape broadcast in Lebanon serving trays of tea to invading Israeli forces at his base in Marjayoun. The episode infuriated many Lebanese, but they're amused with another popular subject. That's the story of the Lebanese shopkeeper who was reportedly abducted by Israeli forces, held for several weeks and eventually handed over to the Red Cross - all apparently in a case of mistaken identity. His name is Hassan Nasrallah, the same as the leader of Hizballah...
...General Electric Chairman Jeff Immelt and Starbucks President Jim Donald to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. To be invited to the Davos-style gathering, each guest was expected to promise to do something specific within a year in one of the conference subject areas: worldwide poverty, religious conflict, corruption and global warming. It claimed 300 commitments worth $2.5 billion from that first session. Says Clinton: "After 10 years of that kind of action, we should have made the world a better place...