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...Walt Disney Concert Hall, which was added to the L.A. Music Center in 2003, Los Angeles endorsed the $3 billion Grand Avenue Project. That's a developer's proposal for Gehry-designed condos, shops, restaurants and a hotel, plus a 16-acre (6.5 hectare) park, all in the general vicinity of the center. But ground-breaking is on hold until the developer, Related Urban, can secure the necessary loans. And these days, that could take a while. (See 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours in Los Angeles...
...banking. If things get much worse for the Prime Minister and he is forced to resign, there is even talk that Yosano, who was runner-up to Aso in the LDP elections in September, could replace him as the new head of the party and lead it in upcoming general elections against Japan's resurgent opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan...
...appointment, are calling for Burris' resignation. Senate Democrats in Washington, who already thought Burris would be a weak candidate for reelection in 2010 before this latest flap, aren't exactly rising to his defense. Even top state Democrats - including House Speaker Michael Madigan and his daughter, Attorney General Lisa Madigan - are asking for a criminal perjury investigation by the State's Attorney for Sangamon County, which covers the capital where Burris testified. Late Tuesday, after the elder Madigan turned over reports and officially referred the case to State's Attorney John Schmidt, Schmidt's office released a statement saying...
...Army General David McKiernan, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, gets his way, the total increase over the coming year will be 30,000. McKiernan has said he needs to beef up U.S. forces in Afghanistan to roll back a growing Taliban insurgency, especially before the presidential election currently slated for August. Indeed, U.S. officials say they have only 40% of the American officers needed to train the Afghan army to take over security duties at some point in the future But sending any additional troops to Afghanistan would require reducing U.S. troop levels in Iraq, and Obama has ordered...
...winter cycling stadium in Paris the deportees were held in - the infamous case was cited by Chirac as an example of active French participation in Jewish persecution. Chirac called on his French countrymen to accept responsibility for the Vichy regime just as they celebrate the anti-Nazi efforts of General Charles de Gaulle and his Free French forces. "France, homeland of the Enlightenment and of human rights, land of welcome and asylum; France, on that very day, accomplished the irreparable," Chirac said in his speech, using the Vel d'Hiv roundup as a metaphor for all Vichy crimes. "Failing...