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Assistant District Attorney Adrienne C. Lynch placed on prominent display for the jury the formerly white t-shirt worn by Colono the night he was killed...
...suicide bomber struck the Afghan capital today, killing two, injuring four, and highlighting once again the devastating decline in security that has wracked Kabul over the past year. Windows shattered under the force of the explosion across the tony district of Wazir Akbar Khan, home to several embassies and foreign aid agencies. The bomber, who rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a convoy of armored land cruisers taking foreign forces through the neighborhood, appeared to be targeting U.S.-led coalition soldiers. His vehicle was completely incinerated; all that remained was a charred gasoline engine. Two of the three land cruisers...
...triumph in national elections, but few had forecast its scale. Labor captured at least 22 seats from the ruling Liberal-National coalition - including, it appears, the northwestern Sydney seat held for the past 33 years by Prime Minister John Howard. With 77% of votes counted in Sydney's Bennelong district, Howard trailed by several hundred votes. In an emotional speech Nov. 24 Howard took full responsibility for the conservatives' defeat. Then one of Australia's most successful leaders - and one of President George W. Bush's staunchest western allies - walked off the stage and into retirement...
...edge, many regions are applying the concept of clustering with renewed zeal. The idea of focusing a geographic area on a particular industry in order to achieve economies of scale has been kicking around since at least 1890, when the economist Alfred Marshall coined the term "industrial district" to refer to neighborhoods that contained both factories and all their workers. In the 1990s, Harvard's Porter started using the word "cluster" to get at the usefulness of companies in close proximity sharing infrastructure, ideas and employees - like high performance cars in Germany. Some predicted that a globalized company's ability...
...providing funds for local students to attend performing arts shows in the Boston area. Hasty Pudding’s donations over the past five years total $60,000 and have been used to subsidize tickets for over 4,000 Cambridge students. The gift was given to the school district at a ceremony yesterday at the Amigos School that featured Hasty Pudding members dressed in drag and the cast of Cambridge Rindge and Latin’s production of “Guys and Dolls.” Hasty Pudding members also taught a group of Amigos students to perform...