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...Raul Alfonsin had already settled in for a long, lazy Easter weekend when the news reached him in his provincial hometown of Chascomas. About 130 officers and soldiers, led by Army Major Ernesto Barreiro, were holed up in an army barracks near the city of Cordoba, some 400 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Barreiro had just been cashiered for refusing to obey a civilian court subpoena to answer charges of human-rights atrocities committed in the 1970s during the army's war against alleged leftist subversives. Now, angered by the ongoing human-rights prosecutions, he and his fellow rebels were...
...Timor Sea" traveled to the U.K. in November, where the artist recruited a band of local Sea Scouts to (unsuccessfully) sail the vessel off the coast of Kent. From Aug. 27, the raft completes its unlikely journey at the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (NAK), an art space in northwest Germany...
...deaths of those six Marine snipers outside the Euphrates River town of Haditha, 150 miles northwest of Baghdad in the trouble-plagued Anbar province, was only the start of a terrible week for Lima Company of 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines. Two days later, 14 Marines, nine from that outfit, were killed by a triple-strength antitank bomb that flipped their amphibious assault vehicle into the air, igniting the fuel and ammunition inside and incinerating all but one of the occupants. The two attacks brought the death toll for U.S. troops to 29 in the space of a week and served...
...Seattle, with most of the other big banks based on the East Coast? KERRY KILLINGER Well, with my job, I'm traveling more than half the time. But I've always felt there was an advantage in being a retailer, which we are, and coming out of the Pacific Northwest. Customer expectations are very high. If you're successful in the Northwest, you tend to export that successfully around the country. We have a disproportionate number of industry-leading retailers here: Starbucks, Costco, Nordstrom, Amazon...
TIME How are you expanding your footprint these days? K.K. We now have a national franchise with an emphasis in California, Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia--those high-growth states--and rounded out with the Northwest and large metropolitan areas like New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Denver. The primary expansion we're doing today is to put new stores into those existing markets...