Many years ago, while wasting the time of my economics tutor, Iwas told that increased productivity would one day present a problemof large numbers of unemployed, unskilled workers.
Today the whole world is faced with very real economic problemsand I find it quite …
LOS ANGELES - Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband provided a DNA sample Friday in the ongoing dispute about the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter, and said he wanted to raise the child if he was the father.
Frederic von Anhalt said he's "almost sure" the test will prove he's the father of 6-month-old Dannielynn. He says he carried on a decades-long affair with the former Playboy Playmate of the Year.
"I'm almost sure the baby's mine, almost sure," von Anhalt, 59, said after having a cotton swab brushed along the inside of his mouth. He added he hopes to gain custody as soon as possible.
"Oh yeah, if it's my baby, it belongs in my home," von Anhalt said. "I'm …
The House is scheduled to vote today on a bill that would levy a 90 percent tax on bonuses paid to employees with family incomes above $250,000 at companies that have received at least $5 billion in government bailout money.
"We figured that the local and state governments would take care of the other 10 percent," said Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.
Rangel said the bill would apply to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, among others, while excluding community banks and other smaller companies that have received less bailout money.
House Democratic leaders unveiled the …
The commodity fraud trial of 16 Chicago Mercantile Exchangecurrency traders will begin on schedule Sept. 5, even though twodefendants have just hired new lawyers, U.S. District Judge WilliamHart ruled Thursday.
Without explaining his move, defendant John Baker asked Hart'spermission to fire Jenner & Block and hire Schiff, Hardin & Waite torepresent him in the upcoming trial. "Changing your lawyers at the11th hour is a dangerous business," Hart told him. But the judgeagreed to the change after being assured Jenner & Block wouldcontinue assisting in the case.
Baker's new attorney, Joseph Duffy, requested an extra week toprepare. His new client "may be the lead …
Development, modernity, and industrialization became dominant themes in corporate advertising in Africa in the 1950s and remained prevalent through the following two decades while many African nations were gaining independence. British businesses operating there created a publicity strategy that couched their presence in less developed countries in terms of a commitment and a positive contribution to the progress of the new states. Eventually, British companies tried to "Africanize" their corporate image through these campaigns.
In the 1930s and 1940s, British business in West Africa was faced with a rising tide of public discontent and criticism. Closely associated with the …
Following protests from students, former presidential adviser Karl Rove has withdrawn as this year's commencement speaker at a prestigious prep school, the school's headmaster said Monday.
The choice of Rove as speaker for the June commencement at Choate Rosemary Hall had led some students to plan to walk out of the ceremony. Others had sought to bring comedian Stephen Colbert to campus for an alternate speech.
Instead of commencement, Rove now will speak at the school on Feb. 11, headmaster Edward J. Shanahan said. Shanahan said he will deliver the commencement address at the school, the alma mater of John F. Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson.
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Three men, including two former Syracuse ball boys, have accused Fine of molesting them as minors.
The official confirmed …
