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...feel rich. While I was visiting there last month, the unemployment rate rose to 7%, the highest since 1981. In many years of trips to Hong Kong, I can't remember a time when the economic sentiment of those I talked with was quite so gloomy. Farther afield, there continues to be real doubt as to whether India and China can generate the growth needed to find jobs for their ever expanding populations...
...you’ve seen the huge fucking possum that wanders around Mount Auburn Street, Plympton Street, and has been spotted as far afield as Mather, you’re not alone. That thing is huge and fucking scary. Gossip Guy’s fears that it would attack and devour a pre-frosh were thankfully unfounded, though despite expensive hypnotherapy, his recurring stress dream in which the possum crushes the Lowell belltower remains...
...five salads on the menu also do a good job of covering the basic culinary bases without going too far afield. The simple Italian dressing on the baby arugula salad ($8) was plain as advertised, but it was also all that the delicious mound of fresh greens needed. Only a better asiago could have improved this dish. The bibb lettuce salad ($7) was also impressive, with a nice dijon vinaigrette and good gorgonzola. The cilantro leaves seemed a bit large and obtrusive, but at least that made them easier to avoid. In addition to these two, the diminutive menu offers...
...only Osama bin Laden's supporters but also extremist Islamic clerics and other radicals base their hatred of America on U.S. foreign policy. Specifically, the complaint is about America's lack of understanding of the Palestinian problem. To believe that the next phase of terror will occur as far afield as the Philippines is ludicrous. The powder keg is not there but in the Middle East. And the fuse on that powder keg is already alight. The terrorists who stand in the way of achieving a peaceful settlement to the issue of a Palestinian homeland must be brought to heel...
...fear of crime. In Europe, the French no longer carry their old weight. The relationship with Germany is not what it was, with a growing understanding between London and Berlin. The enlargement of the E.U. threatens to reduce France's political clout and cut its big farm subsidies. Further afield, the Foreign Minister gets upset about the "hyper power" of the United States but has little to offer as a realistic alternative. Attempts at Middle East mediation have come to nothing. West Africa, where Paris continued to play a neo-colonialist role after the end of empire, is a mess...