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...according to Cambridge License Commission Chairman Richard V. Scali, who attended the meeting. Denise Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, pointed out at a separate meeting that this makes operating in the Square prohibitively expensive for anyone but large chains. Yet, the Square wants to attract more “small mom-and-pop enterprises,” Jillson said last month at a public meeting of the Economic Development, Training and Employment Committee according to council records. The license commission has responded to these trends in recent years, by issuing licenses over the established cap. This...
These new investors also demand details about who is managing their money. "What has been a wake-up call for them is that communication is very much a key part in being able to attract and retain this level of assets," says Rupert Allan, president of Tremont Capital Management, which creates and manages portfolios that invest in other hedge funds...
...blasts, shoot-outs and beheadings. "The government has sent some encouraging signals, but it will need to go much further if it hopes to stem the killings," says Francesca Lawe-Davies, a Southeast Asia analyst with the International Crisis Group. "It will need to address the underlying grievances that attract people into armed movements...
...also happened that MASH was the biggest commercial success of Atlman's long career. He cared about box office only insofar as it could attract financing for other films. After a hit like MASH or, to a lesser extent, Nashville, he would quickly line up five more films that didn't cost much and didn't have to make much. The flurry of films that followed MASH were no blockbusters, but they helped shaped a generation's idea of its own potential, and of the cinema's. Altman subverted genres like the western (McCabe & Mrs. Miller) and the private...
Washington may currently be consumed with the topic of whether and how to begin withdrawing from the chaos of Iraq, but the other (forgotten) front in the war on terror is likely to attract more attention in the months ahead. There has always been more support in Congress for bringing al-Qaeda and its Taliban hosts to justice than for waging war in Iraq. And that tendency is sure to grow even stronger given the tide of anti-Iraq-war lawmakers elected to office earlier this month and the arrival of new leadership at the Pentagon...