But in the short term there are perhaps more losers than winners and the result, as we are seeing, is political paralysis.In the US they ought to be dealing with the budget deficit, but that would mean tax rises or less money spent rebuilding New Orleans Neither outcome is possible. It also has a current [...]

Certainly, Booomerang, a new book by two prominent Israeli journalists, Ofer Shelah and Raviv Druker, reports that at a conference of officers as early as May 2001, Shaul Mofaz, now the Defence Minister but then Chief of Staff, asked for the tape to be switched off before telling them that he wanted a “price” exacted [...]

Neither does it mean that employees without children can’t ask their boss to let them work from home.”If you’re a valued employee with bags of experience, you’re more likely to convince your employer that you can work from home effectively, than if you’re fairly junior, only started last month and need constant supervision.Pick an appropriate [...]

Wednesday was the last day of summer, and I sweltered in Detroit as temperatures hit the 80s. It was also the day the “motor city” saw one of its more bizarre killings, even in this capital of gun crime. A taxi drove erratically for some distance along the freeway before veering off, the driver dead [...]

He was responsible for the building regulations restricting the resorts to two storeys and dictating that all buildings should stick to traditional, white-painted exteriors (he even decreed that all the shutters had to be green). He called the concept “nature art”.Manrique didn’t just work as a landscape architect, though. Most of the big attractions on [...]

A massive relief and rescue operation began last night after Hurricane Rita smashed into the US Gulf Coast, blasting communities along the Texas-Louisiana border with raging winds, sheets of rain and storm surges, which left many inland areas under feet of water. Experts are predicting still more hurricanes, in what could be the worst year [...]