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Chair of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Tom Hollister told the early-morning crowd that Boston’s claim to fame should not be its rocky soil, one-way streets, bad drivers, cod fish, or high cost of living...
University officials will distribute the report this morning at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting downtown...
...other charges. The alleged mastermind of the campaign, urbane French-born economist Alexandros Yiotopoulos, whose penchant for tweed jackets belies the image of a terrorist leader, rebuffed the allegations, calling them part of a "cheap Anglo-American plot." The suspected terrorists are being tried in the same bunker-like chamber where Greece's dreaded junta was tried nearly 30 years ago; the junta's brutal crushing of a student revolt on Nov. 17, 1973 gave the group its name. The non-jury trial is expected to last up to five months; 11 of the accused face life sentences. - By Anthee...
...Brazil is the excessive size of the state." Will Brazil's Congress understand that too? Lula's bond with the governors, who wield considerable influence over their congressmen, was a critical stroke. But the PT holds only 14 of Brazil's 81 Senate seats and 91 of the lower chamber's 513. In a bid for the support necessary to pass the reforms more quickly, Lula took the risky decision to back former President José Sarney for president of the Senate. Many in the PT view Sarney as a crony of the oligarchs who control the country's impoverished...
...12th, less than 36 hours after Estrada's name came to the floor, the always-garrulous Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia was regaling his colleagues with lengthy (and, yes, totally irrelevant) tales of his long-lost youth. It was a scene that brought to mind some of the chamber's famous filibusters...