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...horse traders. Today, between 20,000 and 100,000 English, Scottish and Irish Travelers (nobody knows the actual number) live in groups, mostly in the South. They are reviled by some as con artists who prey on the elderly by overcharging for shoddy home-repair jobs. Others insist the Travelers are hard workers and have no more lawbreakers than any other community...
...tech economy, some corners of the West Coast ports still operate as if they're stuck in the early 1900s, costing an estimated $1 billion in inefficiencies each year. Many clerks carry clipboards, tracking transactions with grease pencil and paper. When they use computers, they usually insist on re-entering all data themselves, even though it could easily be transmitted electronically from other ports. Modern ports in Rotterdam, Hong Kong and Singapore move three times as many trucks through their terminals every hour as their West Coast counterparts...
...that sunny interlude: The irony of the Iraqi Kurdish condition is that as long as Saddam remains in power in Baghdad, the Kurds have international backing to live in as a de facto state of their own. But once he's gone, the U.S. and its allies insist that the Kurdish enclave rejoin a post-Saddam Iraq. None of the neighboring allies on whose support Washington depends for Saddam's ouster is willing to see Iraq dismembered, with resistance strongest from those states with their own restive Kurdish minorities - Iran, Syria and, most importantly, Turkey. There may also be some...
...seemed like a flip-flop, but administrators insist that the idea never got past the discussion phase. “The implication [in the media] was that there was some substantial lean, which was not accurate,” said University President Lawrence H. Summers. “It was a new question that presented itself that hadn’t been addressed before.” McGrath Lewis went even further, saying, “There wasn’t a lot of support for allowing people to lie [to their early decision school] to gain an advantage...
...veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council, Russia rejects the U.S.-British call for a new resolution, although it may eventually cave on that position. But France and China insist on excluding anything that could be construed as authorizing force until the Security Council has determined whether or not Iraq is complying with its undertakings, and that will likely force the U.S. to accept a two-step approach. Other states skeptical of U.S. motivations given that its stated objective is to seek regime-change in Baghdad will seek to soften terms that they see as designed to provoke...