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...least twice in the past two weeks, Adams residents have been forced to file out of their rooms in the early morning hours because of an overly sensitive calibration of the House’s new fire alarm system...
...absence of a UN mandate as a reason to keep their troops at home, but their calculations were primarily domestic. Such sweeteners as this week's $8 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. Treasury to Turkey may help persuade Ankara to send some 10,000 troops - to the alarm of the Kurdish parties on the Iraqi Governing Council - and South Korea may be persuadable to add to its current deployment of 700 non-combatant troops, if the price is right. Prospects of getting significant forces from Pakistan and India appear more remote, right now, and nobody at the Pentagon...
...Iraqi Governing Council to privatize all of Iraq's economy except for the oil industry - the idea that decisions that will have a profound impact on Iraq's future are being taken by an occupation authority and a body of Iraqis of its own choosing will further alarm many UN member states...
...fait accompli, even though News Corp. and BSkyB officials were saying nothing for the record. Regardless of where the information came from, Murdoch's organization got a taste of investors' reaction to the idea of putting James in charge. Judging from last week, there's little cause for alarm. On Tuesday, the day the story broke, BSkyB stock fell only 2%, to $10, though the overall market rose that day. By the end of the week BSkyB's share price was back exactly where it closed on Monday before the news hit. Yet some shareholders are certainly scratching their heads...
...HUPD officers were dispatched to Au Bon Pain on Mass Ave. on a report of a person who had set off a fire alarm. Officers arrested John Blanchard, 67, of Boston for tampering with a fire call...