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Kennedy School alum Robert B. Zoellick, now the deputy secretary of state, returned to his old stomping grounds last night and defended the Bush administration’s stance on a controversial seaport deal at an Institute of Politics forum. Zoellick’s remarks came amid a nationwide uproar over a transaction that would leave several key U.S. port terminals—including New Orleans and Newark, N.J.—in the hands of a Dubai state-owned firm. The Dubai firm, DP World, bid $6.8 billion to buy the British company that currently operates the ports...
...Israel agreed to allow the Palestinians to begin building a seaport and not to interfere with its operation. The document also committed the sides to serious talks on the construction of a Palestinian airport...
...dramatic growth in museum-store sales partly reflects the sheer variety of products. These range from the sublime to the slightly ridiculous. Staple items include postcards, calendars, notecards and posters. Beyond that, the potpourri is far less predictable. At the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut one can buy a wooden handcrafted model of a ship ($10,000). Shoppers at Boston's Museum of Science store can take home a tiny piece of the moon, complete with a lunar map locating the crater from which the rock was taken. The single best-selling item in the Smithsonian stores...
...probably the best on the floor at this particular time." "I really like Ponor," she adds. "She is a great athlete. She is pretty, has a great personality - simply everything." She is also stubborn. As a 4-year-old, she dragged her mother, a bank cashier in the Romanian seaport of Constanta, to the gym to sign her up for lessons. Five years later, when her mother wanted to pull her out of training, deeming it too strenuous, she threatened to run away from home. Now Ponor is training even harder, cramming up to six hours of exercise into...
McGregor said the work at the seaport shows the firm’s experience dealing with planning in an area located next to a residential neighborhood...