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...residence above the Bow Street café.Quickly, her little coffeehouse became one of the worst-kept secrets in Cambridge. A couple from Chicago urged Josefina to open another Café Pamplona in Chicago, but she told them, “If I wanted to live in the airport, I would do that. I want to run more of a friendly place.” And then there was the time when one of her regulars, a professor at Harvard Business School, asked how many cups of coffee she made from a pound of coffee beans; he wanted to help...
...September to oversee Allston development, says he is not concerned about the status of financing for the new construction.“There’s a high confidence level within Harvard that we can pay for it,” he says. The former overseer of the Logan Airport renovation whose specialty is creative contracting says he has promised the Corporation that new buildings will not advance without a thorough financial plan.To finance its development across the river, the University will draw from the endowment, major philanthropy, and private funds already devoted to the science labs themselves.Hyman concedes that...
...When TIME interviewed Sheikh Hussan Sheikh Mohammed Adde, then head of the Islamic Courts Union, in May 1999 he said that Somalia's Islamic movement saw its influence growing in stages. The first phase was to clear Mogadishu of "gangsters and warlords"; then the Islamic groups would open the airport and ports. "After that we take the next step," he said. "We don't want to fail so we are going slowly, slowly...
...occurred in the district of Bantul, south of the city, where the tremor pulverized hundreds of houses, burying sleeping families beneath the rubble. Those lucky enough to escape dug for survivors with their bare hands. Electricity and phone lines throughout much of the city were disrupted, and Yogyakarta's airport was temporarily closed due to damage, diverting much-needed relief flights. Makeshift ambulances picked their way along cratered roads to hospitals and clinics choked with the injured. Nurses laid the wounded in folding beds outside the buildings, for fear of aftershocks. Even more crowded were the morgues, which filled with...
...fought battles of the civil war was two weeks ago in the southern town of Kenge between Kabila's troops and UNITA rebels, who have long depended on Zaire as a pipeline for weapons and other supplies. UNITA fighters were also among the last defenders of Kinshasa's international airport. But by Friday they too bowed to the inevitable and headed home...