May 19, 2008

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SOCIETY

BURSTING THE CHINESE BABY BUBBLE

China has been making it harder for foreigners to adopt. How hard? Well, with the backlog building, prospective parents could, as of this week, be looking at an arrival date of 2016. By KATRINA ONSTAD20 min

MAIL BAG

‘The world must support peacemakers. As Rabin said in 1993, “Enough of blood and tears.”’

AFTER BEING REPEATEDLY exiled from their own country by invaders, callously uprooted from their homesteads in Europe on the sudden whim of a local ruler and murdered in gas chambers, the Jewish people have merely come back to what was originally their own with the prior sanction of the UN (“Why Israel can’t survive,” World, May 5).

INTERVIEW

'Tombstone? Well, I’m not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.'

WILLIAM SHATNER TALKS TO KATE FILLION ABOUT BECOMING SHATNER, RAPACIOUS WOMEN, LEONARD NIMOY, ALCOHOLISM—AND TURNING 77

NEWSMAKERS

'VOTING TORY WILL CAUSE YOUR WIFE TO HA BIGGER BREASTS AND INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF OWNING A BMW M3’—BORIS JOHNSON, THE COL JRFUL AND SCRUFFY-HAIRED NEW MAYOR OF LONDON

Ever wonder what your neighbour with the new car makes? If you lived in Italy, you’d have had a chance to find out. Last week, the country’s finance department posted the income, and taxes paid, of every single Italian on its website. Deputy Finance Minister Vincenzo Visco, who had the unenviable task of defending the move, said it was part of an effort to tax evasion.