Actress Helena Bonham Carter is among the stars of the arts and entertainment industry to be recognised in the New Year Honours.

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Helena Bonham Carter becomes CBE

Star New Zealand fly-half Dan Carter is ruled out of the Rugby World Cup after suffering a groin injury in training.

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All Black Carter out of World Cup

The K Street office of Mark Bloomfield, president of the American Council for Capital Formation , is full of knickknacks collected in three decades of lobbying for cutting the capital gains tax. The coffee table has campaign buttons that read “Capital Gains = Better Jobs.” One wall displays a blown-up cartoon retracing the steps that led President Jimmy Carter to reluctantly sign a cut in the capital gains tax rate. On a shelf sits a framed, handwritten note from President George W. Bush in December 2003 that says: “Dear Mark, I got your treatise on taxes — many thanks. I will look it over with keen interest. Merry Christmas.” Read full article > >

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Capital gains tax rates benefiting wealthy feed growing gap between rich and poor

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Jimmy Carter and Simon & Schuster over his 2006 book, “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid.”

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Sudan’s foreign affairs ministry has rejected former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s statement about Southern Sudan’s debt obligations.

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Sudan rejects Carter’s debt comments

Even as Congress is making stop-and-go progress toward passing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, former President Jimmy Carter thinks the country is ready for a gay president. In an interview with Big Think, Carter says “the entire population of America has come…

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Carter: U.S. Ready for Gay President

A group of elder statesmen, including Jimmy Carter, calls for a fresh approach for the Mid-East peace process after US efforts suffer a major setback.

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Elders seek new Mid-East process

Dan Carter becomes world rugby’s record points scorer as New Zealand continue an unbeaten run against Wales that stretches back to 1957.

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Wales 25-37 New Zealand

Jimmy Carter’s White House Diary looks like a page turner by comparison. Matt Drudge appears to have scored an early copy of George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, though if his preview is any indication, the book’s a snooze: Sections that Drudge…

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First Glimpse at Bush’s Memoir

Former President Jimmy Carter predicted that Republicans’ obstructionist ways should change — and President Barack Obama’s reelection prospects could improve — after next week’s midterm elections.

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Carter on Obama’s re-election odds

With Barack Obama restoring solar panels to the White House roof — the first were put there by Jimmy Carter — will Carter’s cardigan sweater be reprised? The panels — environmentalism as a didactic gesture — are evidence of a ’70s revival.

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The Democratic vision of Big Brother

Being right is nice. Convincing others you are is essential.

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Obama’s Carter problem

Promoting his new book, Jimmy Carter, whose version of Christianity allows ample scope for what some Christians consider the sin of pride, has been doing something at which he has had long practice — praising himself. He is, he says, “probably superior” to all other ex-presidents , and would have…

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November election results will vindicate or undercut Obama

Former President Jimmy Carter left a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday afternoon after spending two days recovering from a gastric viral infection.

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Jimmy Carter released from hospital

Former President Jimmy Carter remained hospitalized in Cleveland on Wednesday, and doctors recommended “additional observation” through the day.

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Carter’s Hospital Stay Is Extended