Word: marcoes
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...Christiania. As they make the most of the long summer evening on a recent Tuesday, the conversation among the gardeners, painters and barbecue chefs can quickly turn tense. "The government is taking the temperature of how it's going to be when they clear the whole place out", says Marco Malcopes, the 25-year old manager of the commune's Info Cafe. "If that's their intention we showed them what will happen - we have to defend the places we live...
...true what Henry James said about Venice? "There is nothing left to discover or describe, and originality of attitude is utterly impossible." Certainly there's no point in trying to think of something new to say about the canals, the gilded palaces or the fat pigeons in San Marco. But every two years - this is one of them - Venice itself comes up with something new, the Venice Biennale, founded in 1895 and now the world's oldest international art fair...
...pols in Tallahassee, led by Republican state House Speaker Marco Rubio and popular new Republican Governor Charlie Crist, have been trying to mesh three reform plans since the legislature ended its regular session last month, with angry voters lighting up their switchboards. The House called for radical cuts of as much as $85 billion over the next five years, the Senate only $15 billion. Crist - whose conservative predecessor, Jeb Bush, was strangely tepid about property tax reform - has pledged to "make living in Florida more affordable" and has called for a $34 billion reduction as well as dramatic increases...
...rights and improve the quality of their lives.” The Massachusetts Small Claims Court settles disputes of less than $2000—typically cases involving automobile law, landlord-tenet law, consumer law, and debt law. The Spanish-speaking contingent rose in the 1980s, said SCAS Executive Director Marco P. Basile ’08. According to Basile, the Hispanic population in Massachusetts grew by 50 percent between the 1990 and 2000 censuses—as such, it is the fastest growing segment of the population, making up about seven percent of the Massachusetts population...
...Marco Iannuzzi’s college quest was slightly different than that of many of his peers. He applied to Harvard, and like more than 90 percent of applicants, he was rejected. But unlike most, Iannuzzi tried again. And again...