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...dining hall, like most of above-ground Lowell, is gorgeous. With its fancy chandeliers, huge windows, yellow walls, and high ceilings, it is the perfect place to eat. When the opera comes to town (every spring), though, it gets a bit more cramped and the dining restrictions border on ridiculous—no guests allowed. It is pretty embarrassing when you show up with a non-Lowell buddy during opera season and get turned away from your own House’s dining hall. But for most of the year, Lowell is a great place to dine with friends; it?...
Virginia's Fifth Congressional District is about the size of New Jersey. Sprawling from the center of the state down to the North Carolina border, it was once home to thriving textile and tobacco industries. But jobs have been drying up for decades; in the city of Martinsville, unemployment has soared over 20%. Outside such liberal enclaves as Charlottesville, the district is a conservative stronghold of farms and small-business owners who resent federal intrusions. In 2008, Perriello cashiered incumbent Republican Virgil Goode by capitalizing on an Obama-fueled turnout of African-American and college-age voters. And while Perriello...
...There are more immediate threats. On Feb. 23, dissident republicans exploded a bomb in the border town of Newry. Over the past 12 months, groups such as the Real IRA have repeatedly tried to kill police officers and members of the security forces. Paramilitary activity is at its highest level in six years. Although the groups are small in number, security experts believe that dissident republicans are now better organized and attracting new recruits. "There's a wide misconception that groups involved in these recent attacks are made up of those who left the IRA 10 years ago or longer...
...most startling observations in the book, he shows that Israeli leaders understood exactly why the Palestinians of Gaza would turn to violence. He quotes General Moshe Dayan, Israel's most celebrated military commander, at the April 1956 funeral of a kibbutznik slain by Palestinian fedayeen near the Gaza border, warning Israelis that they faced an intractable conflict that they had no choice but to fight . "Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today," Dayan said at the funeral. "For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been...
...bank secrecy is still very important for Switzerland and suggest how Swiss banks intend to maintain that secrecy for years to come. Credit Suisse, which took a net capital outflow hit of $5.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2009, reported it had about $100 billion of private, cross-border assets from politically sensitive or tax-sensitive countries. But when stress tested in simulations of widespread tax amnesties, it showed that $25 billion to $35 billion might flee. That sounds huge, but with some $800 billion under management, it's just a couple of quarters of growth, explains Matthew Clark...