BORDEAUX — Anyone visiting Italy, France, Germany or Holland this summer is likely to be struck by increasing signs of abject poverty on the streets. Begging has expanded noticeably, often by elderly men and women or mothers carrying small babies. A…
Media mavens have been predicting it for some time, but when the once-powerful Business Week magazine went on the block last week — reportedly for one dollar — it came as a shock, perhaps most of all to the BW…
