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...capital. On a narrow, unpaved Baghdad alleyway lined with raw sewage, eight of Dhahir's colleagues set out to find two men who allegedly killed a shopkeeper. There's little doubt when they reach the right house. Scrawled in red paint across the length of a mud-brick outer wall is a warning: THIS HOUSE IS WANTED FOR BLOOD. Abdul Aziz Salman, a local grocer, says he painted the message after he watched the two men who live there gun down his brother at his cigarette stall just across the narrow lane. Salman looks on as the officers approach...
...though their aims are high, this team of academic warriors keeps running into brick walls. In January, the Harvard lawyers lost their Supreme Court case, failing to convince Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and co. that a 1998 bill extending the term of an author’s copyright was not only unconstitutional, but archaic for an information...
...woman who got married this summer got lots of Clinique make-up that she doesn’t use, so we had this brick of a shoebox loaded with lots of pink tubes,” he said...
...fast fashion, when every street corner in every city offers the latest look for under $100, H&M is the fastest and cheapest source for trends. And yet it is surprisingly stealthy, based in a modest brick building in central Stockholm and run by a large group of mostly Swedish designers who cull the hippest looks from the multitude of styles emitted by TV, music videos, the street and the runway. With annual sales of about $6 billion, H&M is smaller than Gap Inc. (sales top $15 billion, and the Gap brand represents 46% of that) but bigger than...
...Brattle Street Theater. For those seeking an alternative to the generic club scene and standard restaurants, the cinematic Sunday nights, dubbed “M.O.S (Mit Out Sound),” feature a DJ spinning to themed films projected off the Room’s lofty brick walls. It’s an apt addition to the eclectic lounge whose décor allows customers to sit on couches or carpets, and whose menu reads, “Creative license is involved in the platters. Most things, but not always everything will appear. Trust...