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Shaken by the January collapse of the Bank of New England and earlier bank failures in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Cambridge banks are taking stock of the changing economy and trying to rebuild their customer's trust...
...ensure that Saddam cannot patiently rebuild his military to its former glory, the U.S. and Britain will seek to maintain sanctions forbidding the sale to Iraq of weapons and munitions or the equipment for domestically producing them. Historically such embargoes have proved very leaky. At the moment, as many as 110 German firms are under investigation for breaking or attempting to circumvent the U.N. embargoes against any kind of trade with Iraq...
...Conscience of the Eye is not a sentimentalist tract. It issues no call for a neoclassical revival, for an America dotted with cinderblock Romes and girdered Spartas like some overgrown theme park. Rather, this extraordinary book attempts to rebuild the Roman civitas and the Greek polis as much in our selves as in our surroundings. It proposes to break down walls and open up spaces to reveal vistas too long blocked off from view. And even if this book causes no cities to be razed or rebuilt, it will surely broaden avenues in its readers' minds
...against ever taking a gun beyond their borders again. Children were taught that their fathers and grandfathers committed the worst crimes known to man. The governments were forced to rely on other nations for protection. War was wrong. Gradually, as the lessons sank in, both countries were allowed to rebuild their armed forces, but under some of the strictest self-defense limits in the world...
Whatever the allied response might be, none could be undertaken without a go-ahead from the Kuwaitis. So at 10 a.m. last Friday, intense consultations began. Some argued for blowing Sea Island to smithereens. Others demurred, estimating that it could take two years to rebuild the facility. Most of the oil would dissipate anyway, they claimed, and floating booms placed near Jubail could capture the residue before the desalinization plant was seriously threatened. By Saturday morning, the options ranged from an air strike on Al- Ahmadi to a special-operations action designed to stanch the spill, but no decision...