Shooting incident in Biliran town considered as litmus test for cops.
The question, however, is whether or not the police force is capable of implementing its mandate of sparing no one and go after everyone, including influential politicians and wealthy people. The question stemmed from an alleged indiscriminate firing of firearm on June 17, 2008. A gun-toting cousin...

The poor widow's contribution.
Luke 21:1-4 When He looked up, [Jesus] saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury and He noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins. He said, "I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest; for those others have all...

A problem of riches: how the growing gap between the very wealthy and everyone else is destroying our society from within.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SIXTY OF US GATHERED RECENTLY in a Chicago church basement for a program about the precarious U.S. economy. For almost two hours, we sat on clanky metal chairs discussing rising gas and food prices, home foreclosures, declining wages, increasing personal debt, and our fears for...

Can pay ... won't pay! Much of the world's wealth now hangs out in tax havens, as John Christensen knows from first-hand experience. The consequences have been disastrous. But the winds of financial crisis might finally be about to blow the havens away.
It was a hot, windless afternoon in August 1995 and the atmosphere in my office in Saint Helier, Jersey, was stifling. I was economic adviser to this Channel Island tax haven, one of many offshore satellites of the City of London, and I was sitting opposite a multi-millionaire and...

Perpetual investment at zero monetary cost.
TALK with an economist about a so-called perpetual investment at zero monetary cost and he will laugh at you. Talk with a psychiatrist about the same subject and he will conclude you are a lunatic. Talk with a politician about it and he will distance himself from you. But...

Nazareth's rebellious son: deviance and downward mobility in the Galilean Jesus movement.
Abstract Using social-scientific criticism, I imagine that Jesus' family and village eiders labeled him a "rebellious son" because his kingdom of God agenda threatened their domestic economy and the patriarchal power relations that sustained it. Consequently, Jesus left Nazareth and initiated a movement among Galilean fishing villages...

TV Land Greenlights Three Additional Original Series To Premiere in TV Land PRIME in 2009.
NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- TV Land greenlights three new original series -- "How'd You Get So Rich?" featuring Joan Rivers, "First Love, Second Chance" and "Make My Day" -- adding to its 2009 line-up for TV Land PRIME, it was announced today by Larry W. Jones, president,...

State agencies prepare deep cuts.
Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard SALEM - Economic woes have prompted top lawmakers to order state agencies to draw up plans to cut as much as 20 percent from their budgets. Agencies already had been required to submit 10 percent reduction options before House and...

Business Beat.
HERE in Taipei to speak and participate at the Rotary International Zone Institute for Zones 4B (Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia), 6B (Bangladesh, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Thailand, Pakistan, Afghanistan) and 7B (Philippines) with Rotary International President Dong Kurn Lee and The Rotary Foundation Chairman Jonathan Majiyagbe leading the...

The chopper life; Northboro man's accidental occupation has led him around the world.
Byline: Elaine Thompson When Steven E. Stone learned how to weld airplanes, he never thought it would land him in international magazines, with clients all over the world and now on a national television show. But it did. This fall, Mr. Stone's business, building custom...