Word: quarters
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...more Jewish, more connected to my mishpacha, than I ever had before.In Paris, I spent an afternoon searching for Goldenberg’s. My dad, who lived in Paris during his 20s, suggested I visit this famous Jewish deli. I followed his directions through the Marias, a traditionally Jewish quarter, but Goldenberg’s was no where to be found. My roommate and I walked into the first Jewish bakery we found and asked a random American man for directions. I discovered that Goldenberg’s had closed. I also discovered that the random American...
...Things did not work out that way. Citi announced that it had lost $8.3 billion last quarter. There was no confidence in management. The general belief that the banking system is so badly broken fueled the fear in the government and the public that matters were going to get even worse. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...will step in and do what it did for Bank of America (BAC) as its Merrill Lynch unit posted a $15.3 billion loss in the fourth quarter. Citi will also get a program which will guarantee the value of certain bad assets and keep the bank from failing...
...Kolkata too, but the frequency of offers in Puri, (including from one especially loony rickshaw-wala), when in fact the sparse Western crowd seemed a bit tame, made me wonder if “high season” had permanently departed the town (or at least its backpacker quarter, the Indian holiday business seemed to be thriving).In Kolkata the scams had carried their own character—providing a bottle of water whose cap had already been unsealed and claiming “I just did that myself, sir” proved popular even in decent restaurants. The next...
...reason our critical infrastructure is in such critical condition. It's crazy to pretend that all airports are equally deserving of renovation funds when New York City and Chicago have the worst bottlenecks. We shouldn't even think about new bridges in rural Alaska or rural anywhere when a quarter of our existing bridges are structurally deficient. Before Hurricane Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers spent more money in Louisiana than in any other state - most of it on useless and destructive navigation projects with influential godfathers in Congress - but it never completed those levees around New Orleans...