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...Second City's business community, the answer is a resounding yes. "We view the opportunity as one of those pivotal moments in our history," says Lance Pressl, an executive at the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. "Innovative juices flow, our broad shoulders get flexed and collectively we transform this great city into something even better." (See the long history of Olympic politics...
...case of big banks like Bank of America or Citigroup, the upfront payments could run to a few billions. But the FDIC and analysts say banks will be more than able to cover it. Cash flow is not their problem. Capital is. And because the prepayments won't hit earnings, at least not initially, those capital ratios we have been worried about to show if banks are solvent won't change. Banks, all too familiar with accounting tricks, seem overjoyed by the FDIC's solution...
...nonexistent. In the absence of effective public management, some 14 local environmental groups have been working in different ways to preserve the waters; a few have even filed lawsuits against local and state governing boards seeking urgent judicial intervention to clean up Udaipur's lakes and check the flow of pollutants into these water bodies. Following up on suits that began in 1982, the state's high court directed the government in 2007 to consider establishing a Lakes Development Authority, implement a "no-construction zone," undertake continuous de-silting steps and other restrictive measures. Two years later, none...
Your cover photograph of the late, great, Ted Kennedy surely doesn't do him justice. This study of a seemingly bewildered and disillusioned man does not reflect the positive and dedicated humanitarian he became. The photograph inside the magazine of the passionate politician, in full flow with word and fist and pen, would have been a far more graphic final reminder of what we have lost. Ted Williamson, EAGLESHAM, SCOTLAND...
...what's the alternative? Go with the flow, suggests Habib. Don't erect futile barricades against the water; instead, control its path through the city. "You can't fight nature," he told me. "It fights back." Until the 1960s Dhaka had many lakes and waterways that stored and drained floodwater, but - as in Bangkok and Jakarta - these were filled in and built over as the population exploded. Protect the surviving waterways and re-excavate historic ones, says Habib, and Dhaka will flood less...