Portfolio.com has an interesting article on the link between charity and personal wealth: In John Bunyan’s 1684 classic The Pilgrim’s Progress, the character Old Honest poses this riddle to the innkeeper Gaius: “A man there was, tho’ some did count him mad, / The more he cast away, the more he had.” Gaius solves the...
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Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi is visiting France and he has a few special requests: “I want my tent to be erected near Elysee Palace. I want to meet 200 attractive French women there.” And: “I want to go to Renault plant to see the laborer section and to meet 200 attractive French women.”
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There is nothing more precious than one’s children; for a parent to lose a child must cause pain beyond imagining. It must therefore have been extremely distressing for the parents of Private Luke Worsely to receive a letter purporting to be from an Islamic leader, “Sheikh Haron”, taunting them on the day they buried their...
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There is nothing more precious than one’s children; for a parent to lose a child must cause pain beyond imagining. It must therefore have been extremely distressing for the parents of Private Luke Worsely to receive a letter purporting to be from an Islamic leader, “Sheikh Haron”, taunting them on the day they buried their...
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