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...American agents in the former Soviet Union lost their lives because of information he supplied. He may have been playing a game, but they, alas, were not. He seems never to have counted that consequence. Caught and convicted, he is being held in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison, allowed out of his cell for just one hour a day. Should one imagine him still chortling over his dark accomplishments? Or is he, at last, burdened by regret? It's impossible to say. What one can say, however, is that his story - much more a study in enigmatic character...
...debt-roughly 14 times the city's annual tax revenue-Yubari was forced to declare bankruptcy last summer, the first Japanese municipality to do so in 14 years. Late last year the city government announced a harsh fiscal-restructuring plan that would involve raising local taxes to the maximum while cutting public services to the bone. With its crippling debt, aging population and depressed job market, Yubari has come to embody many of Japan's ills. "All the problems that Yubari faces as a city are the same problems that Japan as a country faces," says Tatsuro Sasaya, a Yubari...
...Sallie Mae, said “it is not the time to cut financial aid programs.” “We’re not addressing the problem by moving multiple programs to another,” she said. Under President Bush’s budget, the maximum Pell Grant would increase by about 14 percent over five years, according to the U.S. Department of Education. The maximum Pell Grant is now $4,050 but would reach $4,600 in 2008. –Staff writer Marie C. Kodama can be reached at mckodama@fas.harvard.edu...
...Maximum price Wal-Mart is charging to download a movie on the day it is released on DVD. Older films cost...
...thought he meant Canaan and sent the children of Israel there. The Jews turn on Moses and say, ''You idiot! We could have had Canada, instead of this miserable godforsaken Middle Eastern blight, surrounded by sand and Arabs!'' The Zionist vision came to earth in a place of maximum inconvenience and danger. Multiple realities are always at work in Israel. Palestinians throw stones in the territories. Ultra-Orthodox Jews throw stones in Jerusalem -- against other Jews who violate the Sabbath. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra plays on, Zubin Mehta conducting, while Israeli soldiers sit on hilltops in southern Lebanon, training expensive...