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...Charlesview Apartments are a gritty cluster of concrete rising in the shadow of the brick walls of the Business School and the neighborhood’s long-time neglect. Charlesview is not exactly a pretty sight. But for many of its low-income tenants, it’s all that they?...
...into next year, a ruling that will make it difficult for DeLay to reclaim his job before it?s given to someone else. Many Congressional Republicans are unhappy with the temporary arrangement that has Missouri?s Roy Blunt acting as Majority Leader and are concerned about the ever-growing shadow of the Justice Department investigation of Jack Abramoff, a lobbyist connected to DeLay...
Though al-Zarqawi's shadow still looms over the broader insurgency, the battle of Fallujah last November forced him to give his organization an Iraqi face. "Among the foreign fighters some dispersed, some were killed, some were captured," says Abu Marwan. And over the past year, U.S. operations against al-Zarqawi's organization have chipped away at its leadership structure and squeezed its sanctuaries. As a result, Iraqis who joined as low-level cell members have risen up the leadership chain. Abu Marwan says al-Zarqawi's aides told him their boss's three top lieutenants are all Iraqis. Another...
...SHADOW BOXERS JIM LOMMASSON Boxing gymsdon't have the sheen of health clubs or the cachet of martial-arts dojos. They're sweatshops, where young men who don't usually have many prospects in the wider world struggle to make the most of whatever it is that boils in their blood. For 10 years, Lommasson, a photographer based in Portland, Ore., has traveled around the U.S. and Canada, poking his camera into the places, like the Fraser Arms in Vancouver, below, where young fighters train. He has plainly got to know them and their coaches well enough to understand...
...situation, since the province of Nova Scotia donated the tree to Boston. “When it left Nova Scotia, it was a Christmas tree,” Hamm said, according to the Toronto Globe and Mail. The tensions surrounding the tree this year have cast a shadow over a tradition between Boston and Canada. For the past 34 years, Nova Scotia has sent a carefully-selected tree to Boston as a gesture of gratitude for the help that Boston gave to Halifax—the capital of Nova Scotia—in the aftermath of a December 1917 explosion...