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When Ammar Alkassar, 30, a young computer scientist in Aachen in western Germany, wanted to join a political party several years ago, he scanned the list of options that, in the past, have attracted voters like him (he was born in Germany to parents who migrated from Syria), but found...
That way of doing business seems quaint, even crazy in the aftermath of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, one of the grandest government giveaways of modern times. By lifting most station-ownership caps, the law transformed middling players like Clear Channel and CBS into megapowers as they stuffed their pockets...
As for Doolittle, his opponent Charlie Brown is a retired 26-year Air Force veteran whose campaign consists largely of charges that Doolittle and his wife, who worked for Abramoff, are lining their pockets at constituents' expense. Doolittle's spokesman Richard Robinson admits he faces a "tough challenge." All the...
Until recently, Vienna's sex and drug trades were centered around the Gürtel, or "belt," as locals term the outer ring road laid out in an 1890 city plan by renowned architect Otto Wagner. Prostitutes filled the pay-per-hour hotels and drug dealers lined the grimy streets...
After a summer spent trolling around Italy—most of which I spent on the back of a pink scooter wearing fingerless gloves and laughing drolly at my Italian compatriots’ anecdotes about hunting for wild boars—I must admit that I was a bit disappointed...