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...Mongols were the sultans of siege. They'd take their time. Surround a city. Build belching, black-smoke bonfires and roast horses for dinner. Pound drums day and night and force their enemies to dream of death. Soon they'd erect a white tent - a signal to surrender now and be spared. Next, they'd pitch a red tent. That meant only the men inside the village would be slaughtered. If the gates still remained closed, up came the black tent - the slaughter of everyone. By this time, the people under siege were sick with fear, starved...
...rundown street, one side of which is occupied by Israeli shopkeepers, while the other is rented out to Palestinians. They exist in uneasy, yet potentially volatile, harmony. They are, however, threatened by a greedy realtor who's raising their rents in order to drive them out so he can erect a neighborhood-busting shopping mall...
...Stirling’s plan was left uncompleted: a bridge spanning Broadway designed to display art and link the Sackler and the Fogg. Some Cambridge residents argued that the bridge would not serve enough of a public good to justify its construction, and the city withheld permission to erect...
...with the owners of the Charlesview apartments, a low-income housing complex that sits on a plot of land central to the development project, Harvard has demonstrated that it had come full circle in its dealing with Allston residents—as part of the deal, Harvard agreed to erect highly subsidized replacement housing units nearby...
...preparation, the sight of Chacón inspecting troops on her first day in office, with her rounded belly covered in a stylish maternity blouse, came as a jolt. After walking firmly past a line of erect soldiers in their dress uniforms, the minister gave a brief, adulatory speech, then led the troops in a rousing cheer of "Viva Espa...