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...Everyone Welcome," read the handwritten sign tacked onto a recently rebuilt home last weekend in a Cedar Rapids neighborhood still ravaged a year after the city's worst flooding disaster. "We've become stronger - more of a family," says Toni Grimm, the home's owner, talking about her neighborhood, Czech Village, a historic ethnic area bordering the now tranquil Cedar River. Last June, the river swamped 10 square miles of Iowa's second largest city (metro-area pop. 255,000). There are signs of life in the downtown business district, with factories and shops reopened. But whole swaths of neighborhoods...
...Iran's, to be ready to commit to sanctions on businesses unrelated to Iran's nuclear program - something Russia has resisted. In a secret letter in early February to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, Obama wrote that the U.S. would abandon its plans for missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic - which the U.S. has always justified by referring to an Iranian threat - if Russia would help bring Iran into compliance with its international nuclear obligations. Back home, Ross has persuaded Howard Berman, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee, to flip positions and introduce a bill that...
...According to Suleman's lawyer, Jeff Czech, her show will be more documentary than reality show, following her eight most recent offspring as they grow, much like Michael Apted's venerated Up series, which has been visiting and filming a cross section of 14 British citizens since they were 7 years old. Eyeworks has a similar franchise in Denmark, Generation 10, which follows four children as they grow up, checking in every three months...
...seat in the Brussels body still appears strangely attractive to a raft of minor celebrities. Among the candidates hoping to be elected or re-elected are former Czech astronaut Vladimir Remek; Finland's four-time winner of the Paris-Dakar rally, Ari Vatanen; Bulgarian Taekwondo champion and nightclub impresario Slavi Binev; and Paul Georg Maria Joseph Dominikus von Habsburg, the grandson of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor. Also making a bid is Gigi Becali, the owner of Romania's Steaua Bucharest soccer club, who is facing kidnapping charges...
...number of scholars I Tatti welcomes has grown to 15 full-year fellows and approximately 20 other fellows and visiting professors who stay for shorter terms. While the fellows were once all American, recent fellows have hailed from as far away as Australia, Ireland, and the Czech Republic. The fellows, whose fields range from art history and music history to English literature, are selected by a committee of scholars from around the world that meets annually at Harvard. According to Marica S. Tacconi, a professor of musicology at Pennsylvania State University who was a fellow at I Tatti...