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[Hnn.us] History News Network: Yesterday, Furor at A Gentle Fuss celebrated the 191st anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, with two recommendations: Sergei Bondarchuk's Waterloo (1970), starring Christopher Plummer as Wellington, Rod Steiger as Bonaparte, Orson Welles as Louis XVIII, and the entire Soviet cavalry; and Musiques Napolioniennies, a feast of Napoleonic and other French martial music.
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[Crookedtimber.org] Crooked Timber » » Investment news (note to financial regulators ...: They also have the advantage that, since the title is attached to a piece of land (presumably farmland), you might be able to put them in a UK personal pension plan, and they can be inherited (although I think that your successor Baron or Baroness would probably be liable for inheritance tax). If, as seems rather likely, the supply of proper peerages on the open market is about to dry up for a while, then these next-best alternatives might be set for some material appreciation in value.
[J3.blogspot.com] Sitting on a Fence: But there's also the fact that the intifada, and the masochistic if not suicidal commitment to a Greater Israel, has led to an economically damaging pattern of immigration, in which many of the best-educated and most economically productive of Israelis have left the country for the West, while many ultra-Orthodox Jews from the West, with their large families and limited ability or willingness to contribute to Israel's information-technology driven economy (and defense), have poured in. So, ending the intifada and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, retaining or bringing back the Israeli-elite diaspora, reigning in and discouraging the growth of the ultra-Orthodox community, getting increased financial aid from the US and other nations (and perhaps even being able, one day, to scale back somewhat on defense and security spending) -- all this could be very much in Israel's economic interest.
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