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...when another outlet opens down the block - works when customers keep streaming in, but once foot traffic slows, as it has over the past year, it is much more difficult to still make money at both stores. Taken as a group, the 600 stores, which are spread across all major markets, aren't profitable...
...after a semester’s worth of writing workshops with Bret Johnston and years of serious literary ammo from Dana Palmer House in my back pocket, I came home to a major case of writer’s block. My expectations were high, and I couldn’t deliver. Would I write the next Great American Novel? Could I do it in the next few months? Not at the rate I was going...
Though many in the financial community have viewed Lieberman’s attacks as political posturing—particularly his proposal to bar institutional investors, firms with more than $500 million under management, from trading energy or agricultural futures—both major presidential candidates have echoed Lieberman’s criticisms of speculators in recent days as consumers have continued to feel the adverse effects of high oil and food prices...
...from the estate of Abramtsevo, owned in Gogol's time by the Aksakov family - literati who turned their home into an informal salon for the Russian intellectual gentry. As a dear friend of the Aksakovs, Gogol was a frequent and honored guest in Abramtsevo, now a museum and a major Russian landmark of Russian cultural history - early in the 20th century, its new owners, the Mamontovs, turned the estate into an artist colony whose output contributed greatly to the Moscow Tretyakov Gallery, Russia's national art collection. It was in the Aksakovs' Abramtsevo that Gogol first read aloud...
...seems the cease-fire is working; rocket attacks on Baghdad's Green Zone have ground to a halt and the Mahdi Army seems to have been reined in. Saadi says the majority of the residents who fled have also started to trickle back, citing renewed security. Those who can afford it are rebuilding their destroyed homes. "We're not popping the champagne cork," says Major Mark Cheadle, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad. "But are we seeing positive trends? Absolutely...