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...house is still standing - a softball-sized hole in the roof, wires hanging from the ceiling - but, like the Ragolskys and Dana's family, it's not the same. Amir left a month later, traveling in Asia for a time, then working in Amsterdam and now New York City. Ilan moved to a village 20 km north; the house meant for him remains half-finished. Yossi's daughters needed counseling, particularly the 5-year-old. "All my plans," says Pnina, "all my dreams of having a farm here, and when I get older, my family around me," were...
...with the city over her request for an electric permit, which was turned down because her brother, who is not licensed in Louisiana, wired the house. She doesn't have air-conditioning or a refrigerator. When friends e-mail her pictures of the giant steel structures protecting London and Amsterdam, she gets riled, contemplating the "crappy" earthen mounds that shield her own city. But she's staying put. Her husband has a great job as an underwater diver in the Gulf, and she loves her friends and her work as a music librarian. "We didn't want...
...traditionally Taiwan's staunchest ally. But Washington, irritated by Chen's provocative stance toward Beijing, told him that only Hawaii or Anchorage, Alaska, were open to him. Affronted, Chen decided not to landed in the U.S. at all, taking instead a marathon route via Abu Dhabi and Amsterdam to Latin America. Washington appeared willing to slight Chen to placate Beijing, whose cooperation it needs on everything from reducing the U.S. trade deficit to reining in the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran. Given China's growing clout, the world looks set to become an ever-smaller place for Taiwan
...Paris street revolts.) In its early days Cannes and Venice were the only major film festivals; now every town larger than Podunk has a yearly movie bash. (Note to editor: Please check to make sure Podunk doesn't have a film festival.) Berlin may be more serious, Amsterdam hipper, Sundance more focused, Toronto more congenial. But Cannes, with its 40,000 visitors from around the world, remains the gold standard for movie conclaves...
...left the Netherlands than have arrived. Of course, that might not be a desirable outcome, even for Verdonk's fans. "In the perception of immigrants, the political climate has deteriorated so far that those who have prospects abroad leave," says Rinus Penninx, an immigration expert at the University of Amsterdam. "And that's not the group you want to lose." Such complications have been part of the reason Britain's political parties have not been playing the immigration card too obviously, even while the country appears to be inflamed over the subject. Last week Home Secretary Charles Clarke offered...