Word: closedness
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William Pope.L has crawled the 22-mile length of Broadway in New York, eaten copies of the Wall Street Journal, and tied himself with sausage links to the doors of a Chase Manhattan bank wearing only a skirt made of cash and urging passersby to pluck the bills away. Last...
Rawalpindi is not a city where fortunes are made. It is a refuge for those seeking relief from the backbreaking labors of rural life and a home for those fleeing the violence on Pakistan's troubled frontier with Afghanistan. 'Pindi, as it is known, may be a stifling metropolis where...
To Musharraf's interlocutors in Washington, this must have sounded like progress. But his decision just shunted the jihadist mentality underground. With a nod and a wink, organizations like LeT re-emerged under new names. The camps were officially closed, but training shifted to hideaways deep in the mountains, where...
But medical schools are a new low. After the Times stories were published, Senator Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican and longtime critic of drug-company influence, fired off a letter to Pfizer chairman and CEO Jeffrey Kindler describing himself as "greatly disturbed" by the reports and accusing Pfizer of trying...
But realizing these potential savings is easier said than done. New York State is thought to have the fastest-shrinking prison population in the country - from a peak in 1999 of 71,600 to fewer than 60,000 this year - but so far only some prison wards have been closed...