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...have to live with this deflating fact: it could be a long, hot and very quiet summer...
...toward corporate excesses, even in the traditionally passive British shareholder culture. One Barclays bank investor made news by telling chief executive Matthew Barrett at the recent shareholder meeting that with a pay package of $2.6 million, he was getting the "equivalent to 10 High Court judges." Robert Smith, a quiet-spoken retired structural engineer, also sharply questioned banking group Abbey National's board. Abbey last year lost $1.6 billion, halved dividends but paid golden handshakes totaling some $9 million to five departing directors. "It's scandalous," Smith says. "It was a reward for failure." The furor is largely a British...
Most of the gains for the gun lobby have been quiet ones. Attorney General John Ashcroft has expanded the government's view of the Second Amendment, stating explicitly that it protects an individual's right to possess and bear arms--a departure from the longstanding view that this right was limited to state militias. Ashcroft has also proposed shortening the length of time the FBI is required to keep records of background checks. He wants it reduced to a single business day; the Clinton Administration required 90. And while the National Rifle Association wasn't pleased with Bush's statements...
When the sun goes down, the streets empty quickly. Curfew unofficially begins at 11 p.m., but few drivers, even those earning dollars from foreigners, stay out that late. One learns to fear the shadows that move. Gunfire punches holes in the city's eerie quiet. Two sharp cracks signal an American checkpoint firing warning shots. Rapid automatic fire sounds the news that electricity has returned to a neighborhood. Most ominous of all is the single shot...
...guilty pleasure of a juicy contention is only one reason to visit, however. Behind the south wall of the monastery is another: a beautiful path lined with prayer flags that leads to the stupa and a quiet meadow beyond. Some flags are printed with prayers to bless the dead, others with prayers to increase prosperity and happiness for all living things...