Steves Forbes on why Obama shouldn't repeat Bush's mistakes on Wall Street

Seeded on Fri Mar 6, 2009 10:15 AM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Obama doesn't have to keep Bush policies that helped make the mess on Wall Street - and here are some pretty smart moves that wouldn't cost Uncle Sam a dime.

business, wall-street, obama, bush, steve-forbes, mark-to-market, banks, investment

Mayoral Control Makes the Grade

Seeded on Fri Mar 6, 2009 10:10 AM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Why keeping the Mayor in charge of New York's school system makes sense - instead why returning control to the unions does not.

education, new-york, bloomberg, unions, united-federation-of-teachers, joel-klein, eva-moskowitz, sheldon-silver, school-choice, charter-schools

A very British war

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 7:36 AM EDT (Telegraph)

Patrick Bishop, who sailed 8,000 miles with the Task Force to recapture the Falklands, describes the highs and lows of the campaign against the Argentines, and explains how victory transformed the national mood and ushered in the brash new Thatcher era.

world-news, falklands-war

Snapshot reveals rare cancer in girl's eye

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 7:22 AM EDT (Telegraph)

Carenza Thomas's love of being photographed has saved her life. While testing a new digital camera, her mother, Kathryn Thomas, noticed something strange about her daughter's eyes. She was puzzled when she viewed the pictures and saw that one eye appeared bright white.

world-news, cancer

Schools dropping the Holocaust

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 7:19 AM EDT (Telegraph)

Schools are dropping controversial subjects from history lessons - such as the Holocaust and the Crusades - because teachers do not want to cause offence, Government research has discovered.

world-news

Ikea launches flatpack homes in Britain

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 7:11 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

In a move likely to strike terror into the heart of anyone who has struggled to put together an Ikea wardrobe, the iconic Swedish furniture chain is to launch its own range of houses in Britain.

world-news

Welcome to Ikeatown

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 7:06 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

A few years ago, a delightfully surreal movie came out called Kitchen Stories, in which a team of 1950s Swedish home economists crossed the border en masse and installed themselves in the kitchens of Norwegian bachelors.

world-news, architecture

Nepal's Maoists in government after deal ends 10-year war

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 6:23 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

By Tania Branigan, and agencies Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas joined an interim government yesterday under a peace deal that finally takes them into the political mainstream after a decade-long conflict.

world-news, nepal, maoists

Kirkuk resettlement plan causes controversy

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 6:22 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

By Michael Howard in Baghdad Iraq's government is to try to resettle thousands of Arabs who were moved north to the oil rich city of Kirkuk during Saddam Hussein's regime, in a move popular with Kurds but bitterly opposed by Sunni Arab nationalists.

world-news, iraq, kirkuk, kurds

Whales surface in Tuscany

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 6:20 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

By Tom Kington in Rome Tuscany's fertile sun-baked soil has been producing excellent red wines and succulent tomatoes for centuries, but has now gone one further, yielding two complete prehistoric whale skeletons in little more than a week.

world-news, tuscany

Corrupt, greedy and violent: Mugabe attacked by Catholic bishops after years of silence

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 6:19 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

· Senior Zimbabwean clerics call for new constitution · MDC members arrive at court with severe injuries By Chris McGreal in Harare

world-news, robert-mugabe, morgan-tsvangirai

Arms scandal deepens

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 6:11 AM EDT (The Times)

Glamorous hostesses were allegedly paid tens of thousands of pounds from a BAE Systems slush fund to attend lavish parties where a Saudi prince and his entourage were guests of honour.

world-news, bae-systems, corruption

Millionaire diver wins right to explore wreck of the Lusitania

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 6:08 AM EDT (The Times)

By David Sharrock, Ireland Correspondent Mystery surrounding the sinking of the Lusitania may be resolved after the American owner of the Cunard liner won his case to dive on the wreck.

lusitania

Unknown soldier identified after 60 years

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 6:05 AM EDT (The Times)

By Richard Owen in Rome A British officer murdered by the Nazis in Rome and until now honoured only as "The Unknown Englishman" has been identified after more than 60 years.

world-news, world-war-two

'I want Sarkozy to be right'

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:41 AM EDT (Spectator Live)

During the height of the Dreyfus affair, a cartoon appeared depicting the setting of a bourgeois dinner party before and after it had taken place. Afterwards, the room was wrecked, as if a platoon of marauding soldiers had passed through it.

world-news, sarkosy, royal, france, french-elections

Zimbabwe's Mugabe seeks new term after SADC backing

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:06 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

By MacDonald Dzirutwe (Reuters) Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was to lead his party on Friday in endorsing 2008 elections which will likely see the 83-year-old leader stand for another term after regional leaders backed his hardline rule.

world-news

'Not a time for mislaid threats'

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:25 AM EDT (The Times)

Ali Ansari on the forces in Iran who are itching for confrontation

world-news, iran, united-kingdom, royal-navy, islamic-revolutionary-guards-corps

Look on those monuments to megalomania, and despair

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:24 AM EDT (The Times)

Burma's bizarre but predictable architectural vision By Ben Macintyre

world-news, burma

Titanic passenger's forebodingMarcus Leroux

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:20 AM EDT (The Times)

A passenger who died in the Titanic disaster had written to his wife from the liner, saying that he thought it was unsafe.

world-news, titanic

Islamist rebels drag soldiers' bodies through streets

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:14 AM EDT (The Times)

By Jonathan Clayton

world-news, somalia, ethiopia, mogadishu, islamists

The odd couple trying to set Ukraine on road to Europe

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:11 AM EDT (The Times)

By Tony Halpin in Donetsk, Ukraine The billionaire oligarch and the former President of Poland make an unlikely campaign team to persuade the people of Ukraine that their future lies with Europe and not Russia.

world-news, viktor-pinchuk, european-union, viktor-yuschenko, aleksander-kwasniewski, poland, unkraine, lviv

Africa gives Mugabe its blessing to fight West's sanctions

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:57 AM EDT (The Times)

By Rob Crilly in Dar es Salaam and Jan Raath in Harare Zimbabwe's neighbours fell in behind the brutal regime of Robert Mugabe yesterday and demanded that the West lift all sanctions on his country.

world-news, robert-mugaber, morgan-tsvangirai, southern-african-development-community, south-africa

Time may be short for Mugabe, but what then?

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:30 AM EDT (Telegraph)

By Con Coughlin Imagine a world without Robert Mugabe. Imagine Zimbabwe, once the economic jewel of the African continent, restored to its former glory.

world-news

Penniless German prince flees to France

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:27 AM EDT (Telegraph)

By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin

world-news

Iberian lynx cubs give hope to nearly extinct species

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:26 AM EDT (Telegraph)

By Fiona Govan in Madrid Hopes of saving the world's most endangered cat were bolstered last week when five Iberian lynx were born in captivity in southern Spain.

world-news

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