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...Amid growing concerns over street crime in Central, Harvard and Porter Squares, the Cambridge City Council last night took the city’s executive officials to task for failing to tackle the problem and urged aggressive action...
...roads that seem to lead nowhere. In fact, they end in tiny Afghan villages just across the border, where the trucks dump ammunition and weapons in safe houses. Later, according to U.S. Army officials, small groups of between four and a dozen terrorists from the camps cross the border amid the flow of civilian traffic. Once inside Afghanistan, the Americans say, the terrorists are assisted by abettors who provide money, pass on information about U.S. troop movements and safeguard supplies. Loaded with equipment and intelligence, the al-Qaeda forces then move out to harass American troops. Since the U.S. forces...
Bomaster and workers like him are a big part of the reason that amid record losses by its competitors, Southwest last week reported $75 million in earnings for the third quarter and stands as the only profitable U.S. airline among the top eight. AMR, parent of American Airlines, the world's largest, just reported a third-quarter loss of $924 million. U.S. Airways is reorganizing under bankruptcy protection, and industry experts expect it will soon be joined by United Airlines. Delta has announced that "to survive for the long term" it will lay off an additional...
...Koizumi swept into office in April 2001 amid a wave of popular optimism. Eighteen months later, none of his mighty promises?such as privatizing bloated state-run companies and slashing wasteful public works projects?have come to pass. Relentless political opposition is partly to blame, as is capricious support from erstwhile allies in his own camp, who can't seem to decide if they need him more than he needs them or vice versa. In the meantime, nonperforming loans at the nation's banks have ballooned to between $420 billion and $1.05 trillion, the stock market flirts with 20-year...
Officials agreed that the solution should be to even out discrepancies in the school system and improve education across the city. But amid weeks of parental protest against the plan, unveiled earlier this month by Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, they did not agree on whether mergers would fix the inequities...