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...brother Akira has no such grand visions. A bricks-and-mortar guy, he gravitated toward more modest, financially conservative projects. Rather than squabbling unproductively, the brothers parted ways in 1999, splitting the family empire into Minoru's Mori Building (with $1.3 billion in sales and 122 buildings under management) and Akira's Mori Trust ($949 million in sales and 68 buildings under management). "A boat can't have two captains," Akira says...
Unless a buyer is found, Grolier will close down soon after more than 75 years of continuous operation. During that period it provided more than poetry to the community; Grolier transformed itself from a bricks-and-mortar building into part of the soul and essence of the Cambridge neighborhood. Poets including e.e. cummings ’15, T.S. Eliot ’10 and Allen Ginsberg were once frequent visitors. And so, when Grolier closes its doors for the last time, when the last slim volume passes over the counter, the entire city will be poorer...
...minor Operation SEALORDS raid and on their way back had come under enemy fire. ?We went into a dangerous area that had numerous hooches and sampans,? Wasser recalled. ?The enemy was thick. Once we got in the canal we took a lot of small arms fire, followed by mortar. Our adrenaline was racing; we went right back at them with all the firepower we could muster. That?s when Gardner...
...five insurgents are gathered in a muddy field outside Baghdad, their faces shrouded behind scarves and illuminated only by the light of a full moon. They brandish an assortment of rocket-propelled grenades, mortar tubes, Strella missile launchers and Kalashnikovs--weapons they say they intend to use against American soldiers. The leader of the group, who says his name is Khaled, 31, claims his men conduct "regular" attacks against U.S. forces. Saddam Hussein's capture has done nothing to quell their deadly ambitions, because they are fired not by loyalty to the old regime but by religious zeal...
...Closed CZECH REPUBLIC Fifty-six years after his fatal fall from a window, police concluded that Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk's death in 1948 was murder, not suicide as was ruled initially. WMD Found? IRAQ Danish troops operating in the south announced they had discovered dozens of buried mortar rounds that initial tests showed could contain blister gas. Results of final tests on the shells, which had been buried for at least 10 years, should be available this week. Terror on Trial KENYA Three men pleaded not guilty at the opening of their trial in Nairobi to charges...