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Sitting in his office at city hall, his desk still bare, the mayor surveys a list of priorities. No. 1: the town's water system. The water, though drinkable, is often discolored because of iron content. Bunn thought he had set repairs in motion when he left, but he came home to find that not a spade of dirt had been turned. While he fumes over the delays caused partly by the city council's hesitancy to start big projects with him gone, he's really incensed that Bradford finds itself in financial straits while Washington invests billions in Iraq...
...following night, RK3 hiked deeper into the mountains. On the bare hillsides, the troopers saw "countless tracks, fortifications and bunkers along the ridge lines," the patrol leader later wrote in his report. When they reached their objective, a ridge overlooking the valley and the village of Bhalkhel, they discovered a gun emplacement and a Russian-built heavy machine gun with a range of more than 3,500m. The patrol leader - according to his own report - ordered his men to set up an observation post about 40 m from the gun. Because there were no rocks or shrubs big enough...
...scored especially well on a secret-shopper report. And a top-tier hotel rewarded its staff for finding a way to supply an undercover guest with the late-night Pepsi he requested from the Coke-only establishment. "It used to be about catching people doing something wrong," says Mike Bare, MSPA's co-founder. "But more and more, it's validating people who do things right...
...there's an easy way to do almost anything. In the last six months alone, the easy brand - owned by Stelios' easyGroup - has lent its name to an online movie-rental operation, a mobile-phone operator and a pizza-delivery service. Expect budget motor insurance this month, and a bare-bones hotel in west London starting in July. To hear Stelios - as everyone calls him - tell it, easyGroup is the little guy's champion. "This is not just about yuppies taking holidays in St. Tropez," says Stelios. "This is about single mums staying at home, ordering pizza and watching...
...crucial elections in North Rhine-Westphalia later this month, his party has launched a new assault. This time the target is Anglo Saxon-style capitalism. Franz Müntefering, chairman of the Social Democrats (SPD), inveighed against "swarms of locusts that fall on companies, stripping them bare before moving on." The inspiration for this alarming imagery was identified last week when his headquarters leaked a "locust list" naming the alleged pests. These included U.S.-based investment firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Goldman Sachs and Blackstone as well as several German funds, all of which have bought up and restructured German companies...