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...government spending to fuel local growth-are being squeezed. Increasingly desperate, they are turning up the heat on local officials to extort more money from a shrinking pool. "There are a lot of hidden tragedies involving yakuza-related organizations and bid rigging that never come out in the press," asserts Suganuma...
...last October. The British premier, who came to power a month before Ahern and will soon step down, unmourned by many who once supported him, was closeted with his Irish counterpart in Scotland, hammering out the final details of the St. Andrews Agreement on Northern Ireland, when Ahern's press secretary delivered the results of a new opinion poll. It had been taken in the wake of a scandal - the Irish media inevitably dubbed the affair Bertiegate - centered on loans Ahern accepted for personal use in 1993 and 1994 when he was Finance Minister. The Taoiseach explained that friends...
...August, Lerner got last season's 16th-best team in England, complete with tumbling revenue and attendance. So while he spies an "untapped market," he means Birmingham, not Beijing. Compared with other Premier League clubs, he tells a handful of reporters in a rare sit-down with the press, "we have a different geography and a different set of expectations...
...become an anachronism as rusty as the battered farm tools on display for tourists. Today, the younger generation of kibbutzniks pines for individualism. Tamara Gal-Sarai gazes out over the kibbutz lawn until her eyes settle on the blue-white shimmer of the Sea of Galilee. "The Israeli press blames us for killing their utopia," she says. "It was as if we'd destroyed a national treasure...
...Virginia colony had John Smith, Pocahontas, slavery, famine, battles and a great Indian chief. So how come Plymouth Rock gets all the press? An in-depth look at the place where our nation began to take shape They thought they were lost. The Susan Constant, the Godspeed and the Discovery had sailed from London on Dec. 20, 1606, carrying 144 passengers and crew, bound for Virginia. Howling winds pinned them to the coast of England for six weeks. After crossing the Atlantic by a southerly route and reprovisioning in the West Indies, they headed north, expecting landfall in the third...