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...family passed through refugee camps in Poland, Austria and Italy before settling in Burlington, Vermont. Years of stasis followed, until Hutz formed Gogol Bordello in 1999. Their live performances quickly drew fans, inspiring even the most inhibited crowd to abandonment. "It's a special band," says Hutz. "What you see on stage is pretty much an amplified version of these people's personalities and lives." Gogol Bordello - an American, a Chinese-Scot, an Ecuadorian, an Ethiopian, an Israeli, two Russians, a Thai-American and Ukrainian Hutz - call their music "gypsy punk," a label Hutz invented, he says, to stop music...
...next three to four years, according to research from Deutsche Bank. Lenders, it says, are short of funds equivalent to 4% of their balance sheets, with those in Ireland, Spain and Britain finding fund-raising particularly tricky. As the U.S. sputtered over the past year, Europe's economies initially drew praise for motoring on. But housing markets in Ireland, Spain and the U.K. have turned down fast in the past few months and food and fuel bills have soared. Europe, it seems, has finally caught America's cold...
...think Hu Jintao will put cross-Strait interests first because that serves Beijing's long-term strategic benefit," says Yang. "On the diplomatic front, I think Beijing will try their best not to upset the Taiwanese and send the wrong message." Indeed, unlike Chen's U.S. visit, which drew strident condemnations from China, Ma's overseas trip has thus far generated only muted reaction...
Even when the primaries ended, the imbalance persisted: Obama drew massive coverage while McCain struggled to get attention for anything beyond his occasional flubs. When Obama visited Jerusalem in July, McCain was dealing with an applesauce spill in a Pennsylvania supermarket. When Obama spoke in Berlin's Tiergarten, McCain was ordering chocolate cream puffs to go at a German restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. "Obama's foreign trip was the last proof that we needed--so it is what it is," says a second senior McCain adviser, who, like the first, asked for anonymity. "The media decided that the race...
...Towering blast walls now cordon off the field of rubble and debris outside the ruined al-Askari shrine. Before the bombing, it drew anywhere from 250 to 500 pilgrims a week; today there are none. But it is being slowly and carefully rebuilt under the direction of UNESCO, with the backing of the Iraqi government and the European Commission. Mourad Zmit, the Samarra project manager for UNESCO, says it may take four years, and up to $300 million to restore the ancient structure, depending on the results of the damage assessment over the next several months. But the fact that...