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Twain would spend the remainder of his life railing at the savagery and presumption of imperialism abroad and racism at home. Travel had liberated his vandal, but now he wished a lot of other people had just stayed home...
...enough to just have a Ferrari.' ABDULLAH AL-MANNAEI, resident of Abu Dhabi, on Arab businessmen who spend millions on single-digit license plates...
...Even the general agreement on the need for more investment to answer that question came with its own polemics. "Exxon will spend $1.25 billion on research," said ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson. "My company alone is investing at a rate of 60% of OPEC's." But asked what the OPEC was investing to secure future demand, Khelil responded by suggesting his organization was being unfairly targeted. "What are other countries doing? Why don't you ask Brazil? Why don't you ask China? Those aren't OPEC countries," he said. Meanwhile, BP's Hayward blamed high taxes for stymieing necessary investment...
Students and their families spend more than ever to go to private four-year colleges in the U.S. - last year alone, average annual tuition fees to such institutions shot up by 6% to just over $22,000. In comparison, fees in England, although higher than in much of the rest of Europe, are modest: the government only introduced its current system in 2006, and has capped fees at roughly $6,000 per student. Even after adding the state's own contribution - and until the government reviews fee levels next year - Cambridge is short by some $10,000 for each student...
...appealed for people to download Madeleine posters from the Find Madeleine website to take with them on their travels this summer. And in an entry written the day before Madeleine's fifth birthday on May 12, he wrote, "We will do everything to try and ensure Madeleine does not spend another birthday separated from her family." In this ongoing saga of rumors, heartache and loss, that's one report that doesn't need confirmation...