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...million a year in local property taxes and $630,000 in revenue from traffic tickets - plus additional grants from Rome and Brussels - the town has offered financial incentives and improved infrastructure to attract private businesses. The mayor's program lured the town's first local bank and four-star hotel, promoted the uncovering of pre-Roman archaeological treasures, and led to the establishment of scuba and sailing schools. Thanks to local efforts, Amendolara has managed to renovate the historic city center, open a state-of-the-art physiotherapy center, and step up environmental efforts like recycling...
While most four-star establishments in this part of the city are Old World in style, the oldest thing you'll find at the Pulitzer is the white-and-gold Baroque reception desk, salvaged from a Sicilian church. The rest is straight out of a Modernist design book, but with added heart. The Picasso-like sketches and giant Miró-esque canvases create a very Spanish backdrop to a ground floor dedicated to the Catalunyan art of chilling. Spend the afternoon sinking into one of the white leather couches, sipping cocktails at the red Chinese-lacquer bar, or flipping through...
...Fallon isn't the first four-star officer to lose his job for verbal missteps. General Michael Duggan was fired as Air Force chief of staff by then-defense secretary Dick Cheney in 1990 for telling reporters traveling with him about Air Force attack options to help drive Iraq out of Kuwait following Saddam Hussein's invasion of that country earlier that year. In 1995, Admiral Richard Macke, then the head of Pacific Command, was ousted after telling reporters over breakfast that sailors and Marines who beat and raped a 12-year-old Japanese girl should have hired a prostitute...
...bring troops home from Iraq within a year was a “best-case scenario” to be revisited if he was elected. The Obama campaign continues to call the Iraq plan “a rock solid commitment.” Earlier this month, retired four-star general Jack Keane, an advisor to Senator Clinton, made similar remarks to the New York Sun suggesting that Clinton would not immediately remove troops from Iraq either. Yoseph S. Ayele ’11, a student this past semester in Power’s freshman seminar...
...Retired four-star general Anthony C. Zinni said in an interview last night that Iraq policy will largely be determined by the situation on the ground and not by which party wins the White House in November. “The situation in Iraq will dictate the actual policy,” Zinni said after his speech at the Institute of Politics (IOP). “There will not be much difference between a Democratic President or a Republican President once the new presidency begins. I believe that the next President will see American security interests in a different light...