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...guess the City of Sydney assumes there'll be some sort of toilet-roll crisis in a flood.' ANTHONY MOORHOUSE, consultant, on the city council's suggestion that residents carry "Go Bags" for emergencies, filled with maps, spare change-and toilet paper...
...years ago are no more. Asia has not only repaired much of the damage but taken out insurance-perhaps too much insurance-against a similar accident. During the 1990s Asian countries borrowed and spent beyond their means, a spree fueled by economic liberalization, overvalued local currencies and a flood of cheap foreign investment. But liberalization was badly executed, with political cronies running roughshod over regulators. Companies and consumers borrowed too much, much of it in foreign currencies. When Thailand's central bank ran out of foreign exchange and had to let the baht plunge, other currencies fell as investors lost...
...surrender. However, the drawn-out face-off has allowed anti-government sentiment to fester in militant communities throughout the country. Three incidents in the tribal areas over the weekend, in addition to a possible machine-gun attack on Musharraf's plane as he prepared to fly to the flood-ravaged province of Baluchistan on Friday, cost the lives of four police. Armed tribesmen chanting anti-government slogans blocked the Karakoram highway near the northern border with China, and in the central city of Multan, hundreds of religious students blocked roads with burning tires and chanted "Down With Musharraf." Clerics...
Faust has spent recent days working to replace the flood of congratulatory bouquets from friends and other university presidents in her office with books and modern art from the Fogg Museum to "perk the place up a bit," she said. She was set to enjoy a home-cooked meal by Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow at his home on Monday night...
...else by 40%," he recalls. "Because everybody else wants to buy a boat. I want to be famous." He gambled on a full-page ad in the New York Times, changed the name of the store to Wine Library and taught himself enough about wine to impress the resulting flood of customers. "I was 19, but I looked like I was 11. It became a circus act because people wanted to hear me talk about Burgundy...