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...workers?" But Stalin would turn out to be a man with no qualms about murdering 10,000--or 10 million. Lenin had criticized Stalin, who had become General Secretary in 1922, for "concentrat[ing] unlimited power in his hands." He had no idea just how much power Stalin would wield after that January eve.--By John Cloud
Such wealthy clans wield outsize influence in Europe, because of family tradition and because public shareholding is less well established there than in the U.S. About 85% of companies in the European Union are family run, and families have controlling or substantial stakes in many of the biggest firms, from BMW to L'Oreal. A study by Merrill Lynch and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young estimates that 2.5 million Europeans had financial assets of more than $1 million in 2001, compared with 2.2 million North Americans. There are more American billionaires than European ones, but in a comparison of the wealthiest...
...course it can. Traditional just-war theory leaves the responsibility for grave decisions like these to the relevant authorities--the parties to the dispute and the countries planning to take action. We do not live under a world government. We live under a system in which nation states wield authority in cooperation with one another. A coalition of the willing--a majority of the states in Europe, the U.S., Britain and other countries--easily qualifies as a legitimate source of authority for launching...
...emerging market analysis at Goldman Sachs in New York, noting wryly that the PT used to oppose pension reform. "They understand now that what causes poverty in Brazil is the excessive size of the state." Will Brazil's Congress understand that too? Lula's bond with the governors, who wield considerable influence over their congressmen, was a critical stroke. But the PT holds only 14 of Brazil's 81 Senate seats and 91 of the lower chamber's 513. In a bid for the support necessary to pass the reforms more quickly, Lula took the risky decision to back former...
Regardless, it’s clear that the downtempo rock ballad is Ashcroft’s specialty—and for good reason. Few rock artists can so effectively wield an orchestra as thematic element, and even fewer have (as Ashcroft has done) managed to compose memorable instrumental lines that utterly complement the vocals...