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...open exchange. In that way, Petrapole is no different from Panidhar. Here, the suspicion is out in the open. After dark, no one leaves their houses, or they risk getting stopped by the BSF, who have orders to shoot if threatened. On my way back to the main road with my BSF escorts, two men cross our paths. "They're Bangladeshi," one officer says. And they send them on their way. There's an unusual feature of the Ichamati River here: every six hours it changes course. Once, people moved across it freely. Now, only the water does...
...companies should enjoy this calm, because it likely won't last. The Democrats will get around to the drug companies at some point. And if Congress pushes through a two-year ban, could that set a precedent for further DTC restrictions down the road? Are drug and media companies headed down a slippery slope with Congress? "Give them an inch, they'll take a mile - there's concern about that," Bolling says. "There's no question the Congressmen will take it as far as they can. This is a platform for them. This is, 'I am here to save...
...book The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama offered a paean to the glories of flying on private jets. He lovingly described his first trip on a Citation X: "The plane took off, its Rolls-Royce engines gripping the air the way a well-made sports car grips the road ... I could see how people might get used to this." The punch line of the story was that Obama's staff asked him to give up the practice, which was legal, because he was the Democrats' Senate point man on ethics reform. "It was the right thing...
...Israel may have confounded Hamas' plans to defend Gaza by entering the territory from three directions, avoiding the main roads which Hamas had mined and booby-trapped. Officers say Hamas and other Gaza militant groups had prepared a defensive wall using "hundreds of explosives, mines and booby traps." But for the most part, the Israeli forces were able to go around it, cutting straight to the coastal road and moving down toward Gaza City before methodically dismantling Hamas' defenses...
...Boston Office of Emergency Preparedness access to the footage. Many residents said they were concerned about how the recordings would be used—and by whom. “The reality is that we cannot control what the federal government will do with this information down the road,” resident Gail Epstein said at the meeting. At last night’s meeting, Councillor Marjorie C. Decker emphasized that the cameras were installed by a private company hired by the Boston Office, without the involvement of the Cambridge City Council. It remains unclear what effect the council?...