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...slump in the '60s. These days the Roubaisiens who have jobs - unemployment is 14% - tend to work in retail and advertising rather than in factories. Figuring that tourism could be an option for a place that had run short of them, in 1990 Gaudichon persuaded the city to convert the derelict swimming pool into a home for Roubaix's unseen treasures. They included a unique hoard of textile patterns and samples dating back to 1839, as well as an art collection that had been closed to public view since 1940. Gaudichon, named curator of the collection in 1989, reckoned...
Klatsky’s pivotal missed free throws were the only ones that Penn did not convert all night. The Quakers finished an impressive 20-for-22 from the line...
...popularity and their own inability to move pet legislation through Congress, smelled a chance to link Bush and his party to the richest tale of greed, self-dealing and political access since junk-bond king Michael Milken was jailed in 1991. That's just what the President, hoping to convert momentum from his war on terrorism to the war on recession, desperately wants to avoid. The fallout will swing on the following key questions...
...Once firearms arrived, "Europe, far more easily than other cultures, was able to convert ranks of spearmen" into deadly infantrymen. They "fired as they had stabbed?in unison, on command, shoulder to shoulder and in rank." From this flowed astonishing Western military feats: Hernan CortEs' 1,600 men slaughtering more than one million Aztecs (1519-21); a Christian fleet's crushing of a larger Ottoman Muslim armada at Lepanto (1571) and the creation of an empire on four continents by a British army that in 1879 had only...
...convert his enhanced stature into something solid? In the Afghan war, the limits of having no divisions?or more accurately, just a few cruise missiles and some special forces?are beginning to undercut the authority he projects, which in many ways is a confidence trick born of his own forceful personality and fast footwork. His war aims are admirably grand?reviving the Middle East peace process, tackling "grinding poverty and pandemic disease" in Africa, fortifying the U.N. and rebuilding Afghanistan?but delivering any of them depends on Bush, who is narrowly focused on getting al-Qaeda and defending the homeland...