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...which clacks loudly when a stranger approaches, roaming in the garden. In a country where more than a third of the population lives below the poverty line, many of the wealthy believe in enhancing their status by importing Filipina maids. The spoiled kids hang out at Karachi's single mall, listen to heavy metal, and some of them form gangs with cry-tough names such as 9mm, Kryptonite and Outsiders. Every so often, they'll rumble over a girl and arrange for their bodyguards to trade a few punches in the KFC parking lot. There are no burqas here...
...based in Arlington, Virginia, is betting yes, with a €376 million, 34-hectare shopping-and-entertainment complex, Madrid Xanadú. In addition to the ski slope, which has a run 250 m long and 55 m wide, covered in man-made snow and over 100 fake trees, the mall has 220 stores, 30 restaurants, a 15-screen movie theater and a 3,716-sq-m go-cart track. Nestled amid grassy hills, office parks and apartment blocks in a massive ring of suburban sprawl 24 km southwest of Madrid - joining the big-box Ikea and Media Markt that already...
...just the armed forces that will have to adapt to guerrilla warfare. So will the public. Americans like their wars to have clean endings, with ticker-tape parades and a memorial on the Mall in Washington. But guerrilla wars aren't like that. Parents of fighting men in the old colonial powers got used to hearing that their sons had died in sordid skirmishes whose names nobody had heard of or--like the six Americans killed when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan last week--in accidents far from home. Guerrilla warfare may have fine American antecedents, but we have always...
...Constitution is the most sought-after blueprint for governance around the globe, why do so many people here at home seem threatened by it? If American citizens cannot visit a shopping mall wearing T shirts that read PEACE ON EARTH, what message does that send about our ability to deal with the others who share this planet? It's no wonder we are running low on allies. We appear to have a national rage problem, and this is one we cannot blame on teenagers, skinheads or minorities! LYN STONE Cazenovia...
They will meet tomorrow morning to rally outside of the Supreme Court while the oral arguments take place, and then participate in a national march from the Mall to the Lincoln Memorial around noon...