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...authorities suspect that the July 17 suicide bombings of two Jakarta luxury hotels were the work of the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah, which was responsible for the 2002 Bali attacks that killed 202 people. The blasts were condemned by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who had kept the group at bay for four years after taking office and was re-elected just nine days earlier...
OAKLAND, Calif.—Driving up to the Bay Area was an interesting experience. For the first hour, I felt like I had driven into the world depicted at the opening of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby. It was pure desolation, a veritable wasteland. I half-expected the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg to pop out of nowhere. Then an hour further and I felt like I was on the set of North by Northwest, as crop planes soared down close over...
...dealer floor plan all at sea? Darren Plymale, the general manager at Galati Yacht Sales in Tampa Bay, Fla., says many dealers are probably consumed with taking care of their customers and don't have time for the hefty application required. A dealership has to be worth less than $8.5 million to qualify. Plymale's dealership is too large to qualify, but he worries the program is too complex and cumbersome for those who do. "I have some great industry relations, and I don't know anybody that has applied for it and taken advantage of it," he says...
...support for the war effort aside, Rasmussen has criticized the U.S. detention of enemy combatants in Guantánamo Bay and secret overseas prisons...
While the LAPD has one of the largest cadres of scanners, small towns are looking to the scanners to boost city coffers or serve as added eyes on the ground. The upscale city of Tiburon, Calif., across the bay from San Francisco, is studying whether to place a scanner at city limits as a resource in home-burglary cases. But in the traditionally liberal community, the prospect of border cameras has provoked debate. "To be under investigation simply because you entered or left Tiburon at a certain time is incredibly intrusive," Nicole Ozer, a technology expert for the California ACLU...