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...clip, hosted in the acoustically-challenged Leverett Old Library, had no flowing tears, no furtive kisses, and no red flowers. The only unlocked secret was Bachelor Number Three’s key to Decatur, Ala., capable of opening any door in the city. But will his key open up the bachelorette’s heart? (Probably...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love@Harvard Leaves Much To Be Desired | 5/13/2010 | See Source »

...Icahn, this isn't his first foray into the casino sector. Between 2000 and 2006, he purchased four casinos - the Stratosphere, Arizona's Charlie's Boulder, Arizona Charlie's Decatur and Aquarius Casinos - for $300 million, and sold them for $1.2 billion in 2008 before the recession unleashed the worst of its fury. (The original price was $1.3 billion, but was adjusted down slightly at closing time.) "That's a pretty good reward for waiting, right?" says Icahn. "Hopefully history will repeat itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Carl Icahn Is Wagering Big on Casinos | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

Griffith, 67, was narrowly elected last year from a region of northern Alabama that includes Huntsville and Decatur. President Barack Obama lost the district badly to Republican John McCain. (See pictures of John McCain's campaign farewell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Officials: House Democrat Will Switch to GOP | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

...group that has been most affected, and because this is a vaccine that can be used for children, we wanted to make sure and get the vaccine to the children while we could," says Brandi Binkley, director of Health Promotion for the Macon County Health Department in Decatur, Ill. "Since October 1, we've had 24 people who were hospitalized and lab-confirmed H1N1 and five of those were this week, seven were last week. And our median age is 9 years old here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for the Vaccine: An H1N1 Emergency | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Already, the push-and-pull of falling revenue based on property taxes, on the one hand, and demand for services, on the other, is convulsing many communities and states. In Decatur, Ga., a suburb east of Atlanta that relies on property taxes for revenue, the city has postponed a vote to annex additional neighborhoods because locals are concerned that annexation will overcrowd schools. In New Jersey, Governor Jon Corzine wants county and municipal governments to forego more than $500 million in pension payments in the coming year as a way of avoiding higher property taxes. And California and Arizona, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Does Your Devalued Home Have Such a High Tax Rate? | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

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