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...help him sell it at home. But is another report good for anything more than p.r.? "On economic reform, France and Germany are laggards, not the avant garde," says Grant. Their state sectors are bloated and labor markets rigid; France protects its energy sector from foreign competition; Germany subsidizes coal production. On many crucial economic questions, like the strong euro, the leaders are irrelevant. Blair, whose economy is healthiest, is convinced international endorsement will help his colleagues sell reform at home - but that sounds a bit unrealistic since Chirac and Schröder are hardly in a position to deliver...
Turkey’s accession to the EU would prove the organization is neither a “club of coal and steel” nor a “Christian club,” but a “union of political values,” Erdogan said to whistling and shouts of approval from some members of the audience...
...Korean War. The family took a snapshot of Lee standing proudly under a persimmon tree with his gun. But a week before the war ended, on July 27, 1953, Lee was captured and taken to North Korea, where he spent most of the next 50 years working in a coal mine. In November, Lee managed to escape from North Korea into China, and last month his younger brother flew to the city of Yanji for a reunion. The two siblings barely recognized each other. "It's me, Hyung Doh," the younger brother said, and Lee, now 71, gasped and embraced...
...implausible to argue that the typical suburb of Chicago is radically different from one of Philadelphia’s suburbs, and that someone should be privileged merely by living in the Midwest. Yet growing up in a declining coal town in West Virginia or in rural Alabama necessarily presents high school students with institutional hurdles generally associated with those of the inner city. And while a vast majority might think that students of this pedigree would benefit from umbrella affirmative action programs with diversity as their goal, the appreciable difference between an African American high schooler from Harlem...
...margin Toys "R" Us has left. Despite rising consumer confidence and blistering U.S. economic growth of 8.2% in the third quarter, analysts expect sales at Toys "R" Us to drop from $7 billion in 2000 to $6.5 billion this year. And the company dealt investors a yuletide lump of coal when it announced that it had lost $38 million in the third quarter and was closing all its 146 Kids "R" Us stores plus 36 Imaginarium smart-toy stores, both of which were bleeding cash. Toys "R" Us stock now hovers around $11.75, down from a peak of nearly...