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...already shelling out trillions to avert a full-fledged depression, Obama's budget also lays down the foundations of much of his agenda - from large expansions in education funding to universal health care and a green-jobs program. To ease the way for moderates who may not be wild about spending $634 billion on health-care reform or $656 billion on renewable energy, Obama is also waging a public relations war, portraying the outlays as down payments that will save money in the long run. Fiscal conservatives have long drooled over the possibility of taking a scalpel...
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...timpani, horns, and cellos led the march with tragic urgency. During the performance of the final movement, the “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath,” one could almost feel the spirits passing through the orchestra; each instrument became part of a wild mass that unified in a furious ending, finishing the psychedelic trip, and completing another talent-filled, though not the finest, performance...
...From the little they have said publicly, Sgarbi's victims were apparently tricked in similar ways. Once a relationship was established, he would feign an emergency and then ask for help. Susanne Klatten, for example, was presented with a wild story of a car accident in the U.S., followed by a mafia demand that Sgarbi pay compensation to the parents of a child that had been hurt. Business colleagues and German reporters have described Klatten as normally skeptical and the possessor of a highly analytical mind. Nevertheless, she handed over $8.84 million in cash in the underground parking...
...criteria - a way of passing the responsibility for compliance from the Home Office to the employer. "If an artist doesn't behave, then it's going to reflect on us," Clay says. Of course, in an industry where men and women can twirl machetes blindfolded while standing on wild horses, it's a risk they're happy to take...