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...French like to have it all ways. Their government spends 1.5% of GDP supporting a wide array of cultural and recreational activities (vs. only 0.7% for Germany, 0.5% for the U.K. and 0.3% for the U.S.). The Culture Ministry, with its 11,200 employees, lavishes money on such "high-culture" mainstays as museums, opera houses and theater festivals. But the ministry also appointed a Minister for Rock 'n' Roll in the 1980s to help France compete against the Anglo-Saxons (unsuccessfully). Likewise, parliament in 2005 voted to designate foie gras as a protection-worthy part of the nation's cultural...
...want a pretty-boy receiver, like Harvard’s Corey Mazza, who appears in Sports Illustrated photo shoots but disappears in big games (two receptions vs. Yale last year). Instead, you have a throwback fullback (Joe Fuccillo) who wears a cowboy collar behind his long hair and passes up touches for a chance to punch people in the mouth – who, in this golden age of the wide-open spread offense, still uses a fullback...
Feats like a $100 billion foreign-reserve cache have helped lower the country's risk premium, as measured by JPMorgan Bank, to 175, vs. 1445 when Lula took office. The manufacturing sector, including world-class regional jetmaker Embraer, now represents a quarter of GDP, and Brazilians feel more consumer confidence than perhaps at any other time in their history. "They now have the incentive to buy vehicles through long-term-financing programs," gushes Jackson Schneider, head of the National Association of Automotive Vehicle Manufacturers, whose members have added 27,000 direct jobs in the past three years. "They can more...
...experienced a sharp decline in revenues in the past few years. A disproportionate share of this loss is attributable to music theft–a problem that is, unfortunately, quite prevalent on college campuses. Which brings us to the case of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) vs. Jammie Thomas, and the inaccurate and misleading statements expressed in the public sphere.First, it has been suggested that the RIAA “picked” Thomas for this case. When we bring a legal action against an infringer, we do not know who that person is or any demographic information...
...typically seat 313 passengers, but the airline installed just 181 seats to allow more room. There are 117 in coach in a 2-3-2 layout. Not only is each coach seat 5 in. farther than usual from the one in front of it, it is 20 in. wide vs. the typical 17 in. Even the aisles are wider: 20 in. vs. 19 in. If these differences seem minuscule, they're not: they gave me enough space to change positions, stretch (I'm 5 ft. 6 in.) and put my book and earphones down next to me on the seat...