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...citizens. More than 40% of the country's population lives on $2 or less a day?and with 28% of the government budget being used just to make interest payments, there is little money left over to help the poor. Ten years ago, 31% of the national budget was spent on economic-development programs such as school and road construction. That figure fell to 19% in 2003. At the Pasay East High School, a dilapidated two-story building in one of the poorest districts of Manila, 5,000 students share just 34 classrooms and books are scarce. Half...
...distinguished Brearley School on East 83rd Street. Among the closest pals in her set were Oona O?Neill (Eugene?s daughter, later Charlie Chaplin?s wife), Carol Marcus (who later married William Saroyan, twice, and Walter Matthau) and little Gloria (whose gallery show opening Phyllis took us to about ten years ago). In 1986 Carol?s son Aram Saroyan published a history-memoir of Gloria, Oona and Carol called ?Trio.? Since Phyllis was an intimate member of the circle, I figure the book should have been called ?Quartet...
...Never Say Di” squad will be able to bar these manly-man arms from the diamond. On that day, my biceps, and less lethal assault weapons like the AK-47 and TEC-DC9 are set to be legally manufactured and sold for the first time in ten years...
...There was, the marshal admits, one incident that did concern him: when one of the group came from the back of the plane forward to use the lavatory in First Class. The FAM timed the man, dressed in a green jumpsuit with Arabic writing on it; he stayed about ten minutes in the toilet. Immediately after the man returned to the back to the plane, the FAM searched the washroom and found nothing. In contrast to Jacobsen's version, the FAM said at no time did any people congregate near the First Class bathroom...
...mass market. In the past, designers often took pride in their work being copied. But that was before counterfeiting became a multibillion-dollar, multinational business. Knock-off luxury products--particularly the bogus designer bags coming out of China, where the majority of them originate--have become a mortal threat. "Ten years ago we said it wasn't a problem, that it was even proof of our success," says Marc-Antoine Jamet, president of France's anti-counterfeiting lobbying group Union des Fabricants, and secretary-general of LVMH, whose Louis Vuitton bags are perhaps the most flagrantly ripped...