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...security forces. At least 70 people were wounded. The incident--a reminder of the Taliban's ability to strike at the shaky Afghan government--came as Kabul mulled a program aimed at persuading insurgents to renounce violence in exchange for economic incentives, amnesty and Taliban representation on a proposed Grand Peace Council...
They would also struggle to accommodate it to the appetites of postwar America, an abundant, full-of-itself nation. The country's corporate and institutional élites were open to the idea of seeing their power expressed in a contemporary idiom, with none of the grand and intricate ornament of earlier generations. Yet the bare-bones Modernism that came of age in Europe between the wars was not quite what they were looking...
...alive once the Haitian capital was turned inside out by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the living tossed from their homes to commune with the dead in the streets. In the days following the quake, corpses had to be collected in wheelbarrows and shopping carts; at the city's Grand Cimetičre, with its elegant tombs, chickens pecked at bodies stacked along the central path, left by families who couldn't afford a burial. Other remains were loaded by bulldozer into dump trucks and hauled away to mass burials in the cursed swamplands outside the city. Everywhere were funeral pyres, fueled...
...Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms, York Bettys, bettys.co.uk, started out in 1919 when Swiss confectioner Frederick Belmont set up shop in England. The company's flagship store in York (there are five others in Yorkshire) was inspired by the interior of the Queen Mary cruise liner, and is a grand concoction of burnished oak paneling, floor-to-ceiling windows and ornate mirrors. Yorkshire specialties such as hot buttered pikelets - a kind of thick pancake - and fruit scones vie for menu space with cakes, pastries and hot meals. See 10 things to do in London...
...goal overall has been Ivy League-focused, so in the grand scheme of things it’s not the end of the world,” Cohen said. “But it’s tough to have a first loss of the season, especially after we have been training so hard...