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...Total revenues at the resorts will decline more steeply than lift-ticket sales, as skiers are spending less on private lessons and at retail shops. Aspen is offering free nights and restaurant discounts during traditional peak periods like spring break. "That's something we haven't done in the past," says Aspen Skiing Company spokesman Jeff Hanle...
...selecting a house t-shirt...few activities can so effectively divide a House while trying to bring it together. It's nearly the peak of shirt season, so we would like to share our picks of the winners and losers...
...Perhaps more revealing is the mens' first-hand description of the disintegration of the FARC, a 45-year-old Marxist rebel group that funds its war with the profits from drug trafficking and kidnapping. When the Americans were captured, the FARC was at its peak with about 18,000 members. Rations included beef and vegetables, rebel commandantes showed off their chrome-plated pistols and zipped around guerrilla territory in SUVs while guards led their prisoners along jungle trails singing songs with little fear of being detected. Many of the foot soldiers were illiterate teenagers who, in between battles, munched...
...roughly 14 years that she has owned her home, Stevens refinanced three times - nothing crazy - but the bad news for her was that the third time was very near the peak of the real estate bubble. At that time, in 2005, her 3,000-sq.-ft. house was appraised at $185,000; she now owes about $159,000 on it. Real estate agents have advised her that she could not sell it for more than $145,000. Her debt is actually two loans, the larger of which was recently modified from an adjustable rate to a fixed-rate note...
...journalist Anna Politkovskaya is linked to her criticism of the Kremlin-backed Kadyrov, whose government is accused of torturing thousands of individuals. In September 2008, Ruslan Yamadayev, the brother of Sulim Yamadayev, rumored to be a rival of Kadyrov, was gunned down outside the British embassy in Moscow at peak hour. (On Jan. 13, Umar Israilov, a former bodyguard of Kadyrov's, was killed on the streets of Vienna, where he had obtained asylum.) "I don't know who is behind these crimes or why blood has been spilt," Kadyrov told the newspaper Rossiskaya Gazeta in February...