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...railroad station in the Angolan town of Dondo hasn't seen a train in years. Its windows are boarded up, its pale pink façade crumbling away; the local coffee trade that Portuguese colonialists founded long ago is a distant memory, victim of a civil war that lasted for 27 years. Dondo's fortunes, however, may be looking up. This month, work is scheduled to start on the local section of the line that links the town to the deep harbor at Luanda, Angola's capital. The work will be done by Chinese construction firms...
...Ochre This new SoHo store has chandeliers and drawer pulls fashioned from buffalo horns, in black, brown and pale. The pulls are made with hardware of brushed nickel or bronze. tel: (1-212) 414-4332; www.ochre.net...
Ultimately, this play is all about the music. The bits between songs, while sometimes bitterly ironic –such as the couple who happily announce their impending divorce as well as their plans to stay together in one breath–pale in comparison to the alternately witty and moving numbers. Although a couple of the slower songs dragged a bit, the music is in general wonderfully done...
Even though the amount granted to outside directors in options pale in comparison to options given out to executives, such practices shed light on the manner in which many corporations are governed...
...they removed them,” Epstein told The Associated Press. He added that while he considers many of his liberal colleagues to be “mad on many issues,” the government’s interpretation in this case was “beyond the pale...