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...arrest two accused terrorists. One Islamic school is bombed, another burned to the ground, and more than a dozen mosques and churches set ablaze - with a severed pig's head left as a calling card outside one of the mosques. Can all of this really be happening in the calm, tolerant, liberal Netherlands...
...Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and other Italian officials called for coordinated intervention by central banks to support the dollar, which briefly dropped to a low of $1.30 against the euro, hurting European exports. Wolfgang Clement, the German Economy Minister, said the European Central Bank should "do its part to calm the situation." But don't expect large-scale international intervention anytime soon; the U.S. shows no signs of being unhappy about the trend. Still, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet "is caught between a rock and a hard place," reckons Credit Suisse First Boston economist Neville Hill: buoyant oil prices...
...longer movements were broken up by the amazing drum sections, which built up regular rhythms with a single beat in each that came just barely before expected, keeping the listeners on edge. These were interspersed with loud crashing breakdowns that gave an animalistacally cathartic element to the usually calm and soothing sonic euphoria...
Noel Diaz, who sells souvenirs at the Harvard station, agreed that things are, for the most part, calm...
...right to herd the ball toward him. He can forget standard obligations: running to first base on a grounder, say. Last fall the Bosox offered him to any team that would eat the remainder of his $160 million contract--no takers. Lucky for Boston. Ramirez this year was calm and focused and hit a ton. "This team has a mentality that it will pick you up when things go wrong," he told TIME. "It made everything so much easier this year...