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America has never recovered the level of foreign tourism it had before 9/11. A recent Sunday Times of London article complained about the long lines at immigration and "thin-lipped questioning from aggressive border guards." The article called on Brits to consider "other more welcoming holiday options. Such as Iran or North Korea...
What no one, not Clinton or Edwards, was prepared for was the insurgency candidacy of Senator Barack Obama. Suddenly Edwards was running against a version of himself in 2004: the young, fresh, optimistic face, the Washington outsider with a thin resume but lots of charm, ruffling some feathers as he jumped the line. Except this version was an African American celebrity candidate with a cult-like following. Big and small donors flocked to Obama, the freshman Senator from Illinois, as did the endorsements, and suddenly Edwards seemed like a third wheel...
...they're assessed. A burgeoning number of Floridians complain that those taxes are spiraling out of their reach. But despite his personal popularity, the initiative is hardly certain to pass. Some critics consider it too watered down; others argue that it will deal a blow to Florida's already thin education spending. Yet even that decision could have an effect outside Florida, since many other states are grappling with the conundrum of exorbitant property taxes and shrinking local government revenues, as the housing bust leads the U.S. economy toward recession. Asked if Florida could be a national model not just...
More than a decade later, those assurances sound thin to some analysts. "This raises huge questions marks about whether you can fix the rogue-trader risk," says Pierre Flabbee, head of banking-sector research for Landsbanki Kepler in Paris. "This demonstrates that you cannot. The human factor is one you cannot control 100 percent. The more sophisticated procedures become, the more sophisticated employers become...
...hours later, Mastella was already being publicly courted by Silvio Berlusconi, ever-present opposition chief, Prodi archnemesis and former - and would-be future - Prime Minister. Despite its air of overwrought soap opera, Italy's latest government crisis is almost anticlimactic. Prodi took office in 2006 with a razor-thin majority in the Senate, backed by disparate allies who didn't trust each other; most of them possessed enough votes to trigger a collapse. But the fate of the coalition and the career of the former European Commission President is largely beside the point. Fifteen years after the dismantling...