Word: fabian
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...join the participants for the full 10 days, whereas on most other trips, soldiers are only present for a few days.“Those guys made the trip very fun and provided an insiders’ look. They lived there, those were their streets,” said Fabian A. Poliak ’11 who went on the Harvard Hillel trip last spring. If it wasn’t for the soldiers’ presence, said Poliak, “it would just be a group of American Jews in an isolated bubble and it would be hard...
...both Ohio and Kentucky - and the Long Island Power Authority in New York, which also sold bonds that day - paid much more of a premium over Treasuries than they would have before the credit crunch began in the summer of 2007, says Matt Fabian, managing director at Municipal Market Advisors. Ohio, for instance, is paying almost 1 percentage point more in yield for 20-year bonds than it did a year ago. "Maybe this is the new normal," says Fabian...
...Mutawa wants to spread the word farther. The first of six planned theme parks based on The 99 will open in Kuwait this October, and Mutawa hopes that an animated television show will hit airwaves around the world by late 2010. Working with writers such as Fabian Nicieza, who wrote for the Power Rangers and X-Men comics, and a group of managers including an ex-Rolling Stone publisher and Marvel's former marketing chief, Mutawa believes The 99 can succeed in non-Islamic markets. "Our characters are appealing to kids across the world," he says. "We have been able...
...quiet British protests about American activities on the island. Instead, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition has begun an investigation, raising a variety of pointed questions about the island with Gordon Brown's Labour government. Speaking to the BBC, Labor MP and Foreign Affairs Committee member Fabian Hamilton said this week, "I think it's important the British government makes plain its ... deep concern that it's not being told the truth and that our territories are being used for these purposes...
...rainforest's lush vegetation to retreat, rest or replenish supplies. Half a million Colombians are estimated to have moved into Ecuador with them. (Ecuador has recognized about 60,000 as war refugees.) Muddy Ecuadorian border villages like Puerto Nuevo are growing and are now overwhelmingly Colombian, says Fabian Narvaez, head of the Ecuadorian Army's 4th Division, which defends that turf. Most, he says, are poor and hard-working; but "some of these settlers are probably tied to illegal activities," he says, adding that informants often give the FARC early warning of Ecuadorian military patrols...