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...years, an amount equivalent to the entire economy of the Netherlands in 2000. Once moribund countries such as Argentina and Russia are booming, too. Indeed, developing economies are doing much of the heavy lifting today. According to the World Bank, they collectively grew about 7% last year-more than twice as fast as high-income countries-and developing nations now account for 49% of world economic output, up from 39% in 1990. "For the first time in many decades, the global economy enjoys multiple sources of economic growth, of which the U.S. is not the most important," says Gail Fosler...
Like others in the etiquette game, Peter Post, a director of the Emily Post Institute, reports a big uptick in his business. "We've been growing by leaps and bounds in the last couple of years," says Post, who gave 32 seminars in 2006, twice as many as the year before. The price for such one-day in-house corporate seminars ranges from $2,500 to $8,000. "There is a real desire on businesses' part to remedy a problem that they're seeing in their workforce. They have people coming in, or who are already in the workforce...
...sports franchise has won a major championship in the past 23 years. I, and an entire generation of Philadelphians, have grown up knowing only failure. Since the last Philadelphia championship, more than 8,630 days have elapsed and Boston-based teams have won the World Series, the NBA finals (twice), and the Super Bowl (three times...
...went to see Mein Fuhrer at a downtown cinema the day it opened. I laughed twice during the film, and felt a bit uneasy doing so. And I didn't learn much, for all the hoopla. I suppose I am not outraged that the film was made. But it did feel weird barking out the words mein fuhrer in Berlin, even at a cinema ticket window...
Dench: Absolutely. And again and again, and twice on matinee days...