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...collect the rubbish bags left out on the pavement. This early, the Jadriyah road was quiet. Shops were still shuttered; a few pedestrians and the odd car went by. The Australian soldiers in their nine-story barracks - set up in the shell of a partly built apartment block in front of the Australian embassy - peered out as they do around the clock, scanning for potential threats...
...Limo Project." It lays out a scenario for using limousines to deliver bombs equipped with cylinders of a flammable gas. Though the Inauguration is not specifically mentioned, parts of the document began circulating among senior U.S. intelligence authorities on Jan. 5. In response, barriers have been set up to block any vehicle bent on destruction...
Andre Oliver, Rockefeller’s communications director, said that their new language was intended to bring the foundation in line with Executive Order 13224—issued just after Sept. 11, 2001 to block funding to terrorist organizations—and other subsequent federal regulations on financing terrorism...
This is not how most people buy a house, largely because it is not the way the nation's dominant real estate firms, including Century 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA and ReMax, choose to do business. The big guys on the block prefer the old way: their agents usher clients door to door and show house after house. Frequently the houses are closely held listings on which the agents have exclusives, and they pocket a hefty 5%-to-7% commission on each sale. Today that clubby world is being shaken more and more by a handful of upstarts. Internet interlopers like...
...removal of chastened officials. Even so, that year Beijing began insisting that provincial Party secretaries also become the top leaders of their local parliaments. Since 2002, Hu has increased the number of provincial People's Congresses under such direct Party control from nine to 24. "The Party wanted to block the emergence of independent legislatures," says a Beijing scholar who advises People's Congresses...