Your guide for choosing gifts
January 15, 2010
You don’t have to wait for the charity single any more. In the next few days millions will whip out their credit cards and donate to the aid effort for victims of the Haiti earthquake
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The irresistible rise of the aid industry
January 15, 2010
We British love to talk about the weather. Indeed, being British is one reason why I joined the Met Office as chief executive just over two years ago and why I am still proud of it. Around the world we are respected for the quality of our science and services, and other national meteorological services visit us to see how we work.
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Storm of criticism obscures our good record
January 15, 2010
They say you get more right-wing as you get older. I haven’t noticed this general trend in myself, but I do occasionally like to holiday on the right wing — to spend some time exploring right-wing thoughts — just for a change of scenery. My generally liberal ego takes a breather in the passenger seat and my right-wing id gets to take the wheel.
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Save £40,000. Kill off thugs. Capital idea
January 15, 2010
One day, the wonders of technology will bring byline holograms to replace boring old photos, so you can watch your columnists at work while you guzzle your cornflakes.
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Hands off the Crunchie, Lord Mandelson
January 14, 2010
Associated Press We can all take time out of our busy juggles to remember people in far more need than we are–and indeed, many readers have commented about making donations for Haitian earthquake relief. The WSJ Dispatch blog has a helpful list of relief agencies accepting donations here . Here are some relief groups: * InterAction has a list of agencies responding and how to donate to them
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Haiti Earthquake Relief: Ways to Donate
January 14, 2010
Associated Press My husband and I are considering moving into a bigger house or adding on to our own, to make more space for our growing family. (Our current “starter home,” as I’ve written before , is very, um, cozy .) Fortunately, we have always been diligent savers, living within our means and shunting extra money into our tax-deferred 401(k)s, IRAs, 529 plans and taxable investment and cash accounts, which have grown to significant sums
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Retirement, College, a Down Payment: What Are Your Savings Priorities?
January 14, 2010
Associated Press It can be embarrassing when guests encounter a messy house. A New York father recently wrote my “Work & Family Mailbox” column about a common dilemma among jugglers: Having unexpected visitors on a day when your house is a mess. This financial-services specialist and his wife had plenty of excuses for having a messy house.
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When a Busy Juggle Means a Messy House
January 14, 2010
A Chinese TV programme designed to wean addicts from the internet once called it “the electronic opium of the people”. nicely marrying Marx on religion with memories of the Opium Wars.
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Google was right to do a deal with Beijing
January 14, 2010
Forgive the wry smile as I read that the Prime Minister finds strength in the poem Invictus (“Unconquered”) written in 1875 by William Ernest Henley. Nelson Mandela (Gordon Brown says) sought inspiration in this too.
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Invicta: what a terrible choice of poem
January 14, 2010
Stephen Hester, Sir Fred Goodwin’s successor as chief executive of the now-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland, sheepishly admitted this week that even his mother and father saw his £10 million bonus package as too high.
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Bankers are just bonus-snaffling Marxists
January 13, 2010
Associated Press Has your office had multiple pregnancies? When a baby boom hits an office, employers differ a lot in how they respond – from embracing the good news and allowing new parents to bring infants to work, to quietly relegating pregnant women to the short list for layoffs. Today’s “Work & Family” column features a few employers that have welcomed and adapted smoothly to a fertility boom.
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When There’s a Baby Boom at the Office
January 12, 2010
Associated Press Sometimes having “help” with a baby can be more of a hindrance. With the birth of our second child coming up, my husband and I have been discussing how much help we may want and need after the baby is born—and what kind of help would be, well, most helpful. Both my family and my husband’s live far away, and while our relatives plan to come out to visit the infant, we don’t want to impose on them for 24-7 help with the newborn.
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What Kind of Help Is Most Helpful with a Newborn?
January 11, 2010
“E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” How much is too much to phone home? Amid all the hassles of business travel, from airport woes to interminable meetings, a call home to the kids can be a welcome bright spot—or just another hassle. (Or, as with so many things in our juggles, a bit of both.) There’s no one-size-fits-all formula for determining when and how much to stay in touch with the family back home.
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When You’re on the Road, How Often Should You Phone Home?
January 11, 2010
Associated Press No matter how much we try to shape their routines, kids run on their own clocks. The absurdities of trying to balance work and family come alive for me during the morning routine . Here’s how it’s supposed to go: My son wakes at 7 a.m., we have breakfast together and play
January 5, 2010
Loraine you are such a sweetheart to do this for her.
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Jocey’s birthday gifts from Raine528i. (Thank you so much Loraine.).MOV
January 5, 2010
Hostilities have started. The frenzied announcements and counter-announcements from the Conservative and Labour parties over the past few days point towards a long, grinding election campaign.
January 5, 2010
The anti-Nazi resistance within Germany took different forms: some fought against Hitler, and some thought against Hitler; some defied the horror physically, and others intellectually.
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Heroes of the moral resistance against Adolf Hitler
January 5, 2010
So, the milk bottle full of small change. Last Tuesday, you recall, if you were in a fit state to be reading the paper, I set the challenge of guessing how much a collection of 12 months’ shrapnel would be worth. That is, every 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and, yes, 20p, that came my way in 2009 had been carefully deposited in a two-pint milk bottle and I had just handed the contents to charity for counting
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Small act of charity won’t change the world
January 5, 2010
Diligent readers of yesterday’s Times will have come across the report about the imprisonment in Malawi of two men who had just become engaged. Tiwonge Chimbalanga — a transvestite — and Steven Monjeza, both in their early twenties, pledged themselves to each other in front of 500 witnesses, and then were carted off to jail, and may now face a sentence of 14 years
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The anti-sex brigade are the worst of hypocrites
January 5, 2010
It is no coincidence that Robert Harris’s latest novel Lustrum is dedicated “to Peter”. The historic battle between Cicero and Caesar, portrayed in the book, is remarkably similar to the present struggle between Lord Mandelson and Ed Balls
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For Caesar and Cicero, read Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson