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...neither a venerated symbol of American capitalism like the New York Stock Exchange building nor an iconic piece of modern architecture like the Citigroup building in midtown Manhattan, which houses America's biggest bank. It looms over a city that was once the very symbol of urban blight in America. On a clear day the more famous spires of Manhattan are visible from Newark, and so too is the empty space in the skyline on the island's southern tip, where once the city's two tallest buildings stood side by side...
Easy to say now, of course, but if they truly had this game under control from the start, they had everybody fooled. The No. 9-seeded Knights, bidding to become the lowest-seeded team to win the ECAC, staked out a 2-0 lead on goals by Chris Blight and Tristan Lush...
...being long on politics and short on policy. Indeed, even when the President does take a strong stance to protect women’s health, it’s in an effort to appease his base. A striking example is the case of international sex trafficking, a global blight that each year ensnares an estimated two to four million women and children and forces them into sexual servitude. For years, the U.S. government did little to confront the issue. But when evangelical Christians began voicing concerns the President was quick to listen, and strong new legislation soon followed...
...infernal things, he says, each of them making the job of lawn clearing much easier--and much, much louder. Rueter, a onetime political-science professor at UCLA who is head of the advocacy group Noise Free America, already fled Los Angeles to get away from the leaf-blower blight, only to move to New Orleans and find the problem just as bad there. "Everywhere has turned into leaf-blower hell," he says...
...What happens in Iraq has the potential to be either a wonderful victory for democracy or a blight on America's foreign policy record." SARAH J. LIPPITT Alexandria...