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...Other leaders at the annual summit between the U.S. and European Union were primed to press him on the handling of detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, but Bush managed to preempt many of their complaints while not committing to any reversals. And he indicated a desire to overcome past fissures over Iraq by declaring, "What's past is past, and what's ahead is a hopeful democracy in the Middle East...
...earned-income tax credits. One method available for single workers is to eliminate the marriage penalty. Raise the wages of low-income workers in the service economy, where many millions are now. There will be millions more in that economy. If they're able to organize and have a union in the workplace, that has a clearly beneficial effect on wages and benefits...
...Most spectacularly, after geologists in the Soviet Union came across a huge field of diamonds in the Siberian tundra in 1956, De Beers made an unprecedented offer: it would buy the entire run at a guaranteed price. The profits-estimated at $25 million a year-bolstered the Kremlin's treasury and helped fund the buildup of nuclear arms. The Russian gems went into the vaults under Charterhouse Street. When the Soviet Union unraveled in 1990, De Beers went back to Moscow, offering the transitional government $1 billion in exchange for part of the nation's stockpile of Siberian diamonds. Diamonds...
...book also reports that the FBI teamed up with First Data Corp., the company that owns Western Union. That alliance provided Israel with vital information about Palestinian terrorists...
...hard to project power with a name like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Certainly, the 10-country Eurasian assembly, which gathered in China's financial capital last week, can't claim the brand recognition of the European Union. But the SCO?which consists of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as observer nations India, Pakistan, Iran and Mongolia?is rapidly raising its profile. The regional bloc's massive population (more than 40% of the world's total), wealth of natural resources (more than 20% of the world's oil reserves) and strategic location could give considerable influence...