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...friend of Dunlop’s and a fellow Belmont resident, was reluctant to occupy 17 Quincy St. (now Loeb House), then the president’s official residence, for several reasons: construction of Pusey Library was underway, creating a large hole in the residence’s backyard, and, more importantly, student protests at the house had led to serious security concerns for Bok and his young family...
...feel sane and brave by comparison. A rich couple in Coral Gables, Fla., buys gas masks and chemical suits for the whole family; bemused neighbors inquire whether they are designer label. At least one Hollywood celebrity asks his security consultant about liquidating assets and burying gold in his backyard. OUTBREAK TRAINING reads the sign on the door of the Iowa Public Health Department. Smallpox? Or chicken...
...feel sane and brave by comparison. A rich couple in Coral Gables, Florida, buys gas masks and chemical suits for the whole family; bemused neighbors inquire whether they are designer label. At least one Hollywood celebrity asks his security consultant about liquidating assets and burying gold in his backyard. OUTBREAK TRAINING reads the sign on the door of the Iowa Public Health Department. Smallpox? Or chicken...
...Normally, a Republican White House (and Fed chairman) would never dream of picking winners and losers, never play Big Government in Wall Street?s backyard. But there is the small matter of possibly getting the money back at some point, and the worse off an airline is the more likely it is to merely absorb the funds and continue on the same flight path to insolvency it was on before Sept. 11. And then come back for more money...
...prospect of U.S. military operations in what Russia considers its Central Asian backyard has sparked a fierce debate in Moscow's leadership echelons. One faction, believed to include defense minister Sergei Ivanov, resolutely opposes U.S. deployments in Uzbekistan, for fear that the Americans won't leave. But another faction holds that Russia has already lost some of its Central Asian possessions, and instead of trying to hold on against the tide should be cooperating with the Americans to advance Russian interests on a range of other fronts. President Vladimir Putin is believed to lean more to the latter view...