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...east corner of the Ground Zero pit stands the sole remainder of what once was New York’s World Trade Center—two steel beams connected to form a cross. The rest of the remnants—the steel, the glass, the bodies of those who toiled each day inside the buildings—are gone...
Student protesters marched across Harvard Yard to the Square’s Pit area, carrying a 25-foot inflatable Coke bottle labeled “Stop Medical Apartheid” and chanting “Coke’s greed kills! AIDS drugs for Africa...
...keep them on the front lines in Afghanistan," says a counterterrorism official. "Hopefully you're killing them in the process, and they're not leaving Afghanistan to plot terrorist operations. That was the general approach." But the approach meant that Americans had to engage directly in the snake pit of Afghan politics...
While criticism of the Commission seems particularly intense, longtime observers note that Brussels bashing is a staple of European politics. "Enforcing the rules of the single market will always pit the Commission against vested interests,'' says Stanley Crossick, director of Brussels' European Policy Centre. "So it will always be a whipping post." Though the Commission has been something of an élitist institution short on modern management expertise, it does serve a vital role in enforcing European Union rules and it protects the interests of the smaller member states, Crossick says. "So the current round of criticism, especially the stereotypical...
...promised to close all unsafe coal mines following an explosion that killed 20 miners?the third major mining accident in the country in recent weeks. The blast occurred 1,076 m below ground at the Zasyadko mine in the eastern Donetsk region when about 700 miners were in the pit. Ukraine's aging mines are among the world's most dangerous...