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...night, features internationally renowned artists, an eclectic, vibrant crowd, and an array of food from around the world. It’s a party that 70,000 people were projected to attend, some for the jazz, some for the revelry. “It started out as a small block party,” Berklee publicist Nick Balkin said. “Now it’s grown into a large block party.” Indeed, the large crowds and abundance of food and entertainment does make the event seem like a street bash in Southie, and originally...
...Dumbest Senator” and harps on the “crotch-hugging flight suit” Bush wore during his “Mission Accomplished speech.” She prints page after page of bolded names and events from the Bush years in block capitals, underscored by the words, “Had Enough Yet?”The catty invective suffuses every point Huffington makes; it’s a variety of relentless character assassination that, as Hillary Clinton reminded America this year, is a signature of Clintonian politics. But the problem is, that?...
...from down the block: Baber: Again, two-thirds to three-quarters of white-collar jobs are found through networking. For a neighbor, you can introduce him to different people and get his resume to different companies that he would have never had a chance to find on his own. Ask about what he?s done in the past and about what kind of jobs he?s interested in, so you can go through your Rolodex and see if there are contacts that he might benefit from meeting. Also, if you?ve ever lost a job, tell him. Misery loves company...
...company hasn't turned a profit since 1999, forcing the Italian government to set up a series of bailouts that have drawn the ire of European Union competition regulators. In December 2006, then Prime Minister Romano Prodi put the government's 49.9% share of Alitalia on the selling block. Several potential buyers pulled out, and a takeover bid by Air France-KLM was blocked by the unions and the open disdain of then opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi...
...London anti-terror specialists shot Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, seven times in the head at close range after he boarded a London subway train on the morning of July 22, 2005. De Menezes, a Brazilian electrician, lived in an apartment block adjacent to a would-be terrorist who, the day before, had botched an effort to blow himself up on the London Tube. On July 22, as police continued their surveillance of the suspect's housing block, de Menezes left his apartment for work and unknowingly stepped into the middle of the manhunt. Thirty-four minutes later...