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...real concern is not so much this straw company merger as [Harvard’s] warehousing of all this property,” Mattison said. “A lot of it just sits empty and vacant in the middle of a neighborhood...
...that will require Israel and its defenders to confront excruciating dilemmas: How do you make peace with those who don't seem to want it? How do you win a war when the other side believes time is on its side? And what would true security, in a hostile neighborhood populated with enemies, actually look like? As is always true in the Middle East, there are no easy answers. But it's never been more vital that Israel start looking for them...
First it was Wall Street that was in trouble. Then Main Street. Now, the nightmare is approaching Elm Street. Even in my relatively placid little corner of the world - a leafy, middle-class, middle-American neighborhood with two- and three-bedroom brick and stone homes built in the 1920s and '30s - it is hard not to feel jittery as 2009 begins...
...Israeli commanders have emphasized to Israel's foot soldiers that kidnapping will likely be a key Palestinian tactic during any ground war. Early on Sunday in the Sajaiya neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City, two Israeli privates from the Golani Infantry Brigade were briefly detained by Hamas militants who apparently surprised them from behind by popping up through a tunnel. The Israelis got away, and the Palestinians also escaped. Details are sketchy, but a senior Israeli military official said the incident was under investigation...
...city's residents from across its wide spectrum of class and ethnicity massed at the scenes of the crimes, calling for an end to the incompetence, inefficiency and corruption many see as India's status quo. In Mumbai, dozens of citizens' groups have sprung up, aimed at everything from neighborhood safety to overhauling domestic governance - to borrow from another epic, to try to make a heaven out of this hell...