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...watch rented movies and, in the winter, help his neighbors shovel snow. His take-home pay was usually only a few hundred dollars a week, but the week he died, he made his last regular payment on a loan extended by a friend to help him buy the Geo Metro he drove. He played the lottery regularly and once collected a $250 payout, which he talked about for weeks. A co-worker, Robert Slayton, recalls that Wells' only vice seemed to be liquor: "He got off work at 9, and usually...
Just a few metro stops from Moscow’s Red Square, the quiet stillness of Danilov’s bell tower makes the monastery seem far removed from the frenetic, modern city that has grown up around it—and the political and cultural revolutions of the past 100 years that have transformed Russia from a centuries-old monarchy to a Communist dictatorship to a free market democracy...
...metro ride home from the courthouse, Okhotin mused about whether the construction on the Center for Government and International Studies, a block from his Cambridge apartment, would be completed before he got a chance to return to Harvard—should he choose to fight for his conviction to be overturned...
...picking up again." After three years of stagnation, Germany is finally taking its first tentative baby steps toward economic recovery. So far, there are few definitive statistics to support the notion that the entire economy is growing again. But the vignettes feel like they're attaining a critical mass. METRO Group, the country's largest retailer, for example, forecasts sales will rise 5.5% this year. Porsche sold 60% more sports cars in Western Europe in July than it did a year ago. BMW added 2,100 jobs at German factories to meet an expected increase in production. And an August...
...metro ride home from the courthouse, Okhotin mused about whether the construction on the Center for Government and International Studies, a block from his Cambridge apartment, would be completed before he got a chance to return to Harvard--should he choose to fight for his conviction to be overturned...