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After another brief bout of indecision over our choice of location, we select the pit as the most potentially lucrative site. We set out our sign, “Please Give $ For Wedding,” the small basket christened with dimes and pennies by a few kind friends, and assume our positions. Grainne and Angela settle on the concrete blocks just outside the pit and I stand on the ground in front of them. I struggle to replicate the expressionless gaze I so admire in the Square’s bride and angel living statues. I stare straight ahead...
...approach the woman furiously photographing the bride and groom. Marie-France Studnicki-Gizbert had arrived from Canada two days before to visit her son at MIT, and is walking through the Square after a day-long tour of Harvard’s museums. She drops a dollar in our basket and tells me that we are hardly her first encounter with living statues...
...that the reconstruction of Iraq would be paid for by the country's oil revenues. But between debts, money owed on signed contracts and reparations from the first Gulf War, Baghdad owes $200 billion to $300 billion. That means the country is in much tougher shape than international financial basket cases like Argentina. And its oil sales, subject to U.N. approval, amount to only about $15 billion annually...
...debt at $116 billion and claims for war reparations at a bit over $200 billion. Some estimates put total debt at close to $400 billion. To put that in perspective, Iraq's per capita debt is over 10 times as great as Argentina's, the worlds previously leading economic basket case...
...Park benches, shade trees and easy access to cool drinks and extra food at the Barker Center cafe if your picnic basket runs...