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...with city banks currently reluctant to loan the money the area needs to rebuild itself, the renaissance of Central Square seems increasingly remote, Woodbury says. And meanwhile, the complaints about the homeless continue to mount...
...relied on poison gas, not against invading soldiers but against civilians, women and children. It took eight years for the gulf war to end in a stalemate, with a loss of an estimated 75,000 to 150,000 Iraqi lives and the country's economy in ruins. To rebuild from the wreckage, Saddam needed more oil revenues, and when Kuwait interfered with his plans, he reached -- as ever -- for his pistol...
...last week. For one thing, the Associated Press reported that Perkin-Elmer Corp., which built the flawed mirror on the telescope, gave a subcontractor backward drawings for part of the telescope's guidance system -- forcing the prime contractor to pay the San Diego-based subcontractor, Composite Optics Inc., to rebuild it. Composite Optics reportedly made a tidy 63% profit...
...tune of profitable musicals like City of Angels, the plight of drama is downbeat. Theaters that once launched plays by Arthur Miller and Clifford Odets have become hostile territory for non-musical works. With tickets hitting $60, theatergoers typically prefer the full song-and-dance for their money. To rebuild drama's audience, a coalition of producers, unions, theater owners and suppliers has created the Broadway Alliance, a unique agreement that will cut ticket costs by as much...
...coeducational -- and, by the standards of the '50s, its members belonged to an educational elite. But their opinions -- serious, measured -- and their lives -- steady, prosperous -- do reflect the country they helped shape and that in turn shaped them. Raised in rubble, they went on to bridge and rebuild: youngsters touched by the fury of World War II; adolescents molded by the struggle out of the ruins; adults rewarded with stability, their lives dominated by a quest for acceptance -- and security. More than 40 years later, Manfred Poeck, a transportation planner in Munich, succinctly remembers the day after the war when...