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...toshers (copper salvagers), mudlarks and bone-pickers who crammed the city's margins, scavenging its corpses or sifting through its effluvia on the banks of the Thames. The air in parts of the capital was so appalling that when, in 1854, cholera struck on Broad Street in the Soho district and quickly developed into the worst epidemic in the city's history, it was hard to doubt the official line - let alone the evidence of the senses - that the stink was to blame...
...This is absolutely critical, for Iraq, the region, the U.S., that some form of democratic government is created, some form of free market. It needs to be what the Iraqis want, but at the same time it is critical that in a broad sense it be considered a democracy...
...Beverly Hills of the city?checking out the fashion group Beymen's premier store. Most of the Fendi bags were sold out or back-ordered on waiting lists. Next, he headed to Kanyon, an architecturally splendid new development comprising living, working and shopping areas with sweeping, cantilevered elevations, broad thoroughfares and intriguing side streets...
...features a bloodied hand with a trail of crimson, suggesting an element of the macabre and of violence. It is this element—along with a heavy dose of suspense—that forms the core of these stories and holds this otherwise disparate collection together. The broad thriller genre, it seems, is essentially the literary equivalent of modern films such as “The Bourne Identity,” “First Blood” (better known as “Rambo”), and “Along Came a Spider.” Each...
...This site is like bathroom stall doors for the twenty-first century,” someone writes at BoredAtLamont.com, a newish social message board site where students post anonymously. Indeed, the site features a broad spectrum of comments: the mundane, the intellectual, the random, the emotional, but mostly the patently offensive. BoredAtLamont is one of nine “Bored At” Web sites, the first of which was started this February by 2006 Columbia graduate Jonathan R. Pappas. But why subject library dwellers to the rants of others? “It was a little bit of being...