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...well, anxious U.N. workers in Gaza City fretted they'd soon run out of food to hand out to even more anxious refugees. Walid Safiz, a 28-year-old vendor selling sundries at the Friday market in Gaza City, said business was down 80% because, without international funding, the bankrupt government can't pay some 160,000 civil servants. "If they don't get salaries, they don't buy anything," he observes. And while Hamas continues to observe a cease-fire, gunmen of the secular al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - the military wing of the deposed Fatah party - vowed last week...
...choice between my shop and my health. I chose my health,” she said.The poetry shop is indebted to Harvard Real Estate, according to Solano, for being extremely lenient in terms of rent. Two years ago she was afraid she would have to declare the shop bankrupt. “They have been absolutely wonderful to me over the past 10 years, through all of my various illnesses and accidents,” she said.Menkiti, who now owns the store, was born in Nigeria and first encountered poetry when he came to the United States as an undergraduate...
...racked up model-city awards from Beijing and the United Nations. But these shiny credentials presented a dilemma for local leaders?their political promotion would depend in part on outdoing their predecessors, and Zhongshan didn't leave much room for improvement. So when the Yuezhong shipworks went bankrupt, it wasn't long before plans emerged to remove an eyesore, cut ribbons and make progress...
...poetry shop is indebted to Harvard Real Estate, according to Solano, for being extremely lenient in terms of rent. Two years ago she was afraid she would have to declare the shop bankrupt...
...euro but no to the constitutional treaty on Europe; and the country's youth, who will live less well than their parents, or so 60% of French people believe. It's an explosive situation. In the best scenario, it will lead to a rupture of a bankrupt social model. At worst we'll end up with a lame "appeasement" like the one that led France to humiliating defeat in 1940. Failing to rein in public spending for fear of displeasing those who use and abuse it would amount to precisely that today. In Strange Defeat, a superb essay written...