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From a fire-gutted shell across from a pretty park on the north side of town to a mangy wreck near the airport where a collection of cats and dogs were found chained together in the yard, abandoned residences are putting a blight on all types of neighborhoods. "We get about six to ten calls a day on vacant homes," says police officer John McGill, who stresses that this isn't just a problem in the poorer parts of town...
...poorer countries, the same price hike has left low-income families struggling to maintain a minimal diet. Egypt, which subsidizes bread prices for its poorest citizens, had to shell out an extra $850 million on wheat last year, and the UN blames rising food prices for difficulty in meeting many of its Millennium Development goals in Sub-Saharan Africa...
There are also questions about whether Spitzer could be prosecuted for tax fraud if he "structured" his payments to the Emperors Club VIP through shell companies. "What it's really going to depend on is how the money was paid," Burstein told TIME, adding, "If his name was not Eliot Spitzer, it's virtually inconceivable that there would be any question of prosecution." Still, he put the odds...
...Although Adams and McDormand make a delightful pair, they can’t rescue the movie from the superficiality of its screenplay. The characters are too flat to elevate the film to the level of profound social commentary. Instead of a substantive film, all Nalluri leaves us is a shell of what could have been a meaningful story of one woman’s ability to rise above her unfortunate circumstances...
...swings between humor and pathos ended that evening at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater, an ornate, three-tier orchestra hall whose stage had recently been fitted with a new acoustic shell to make the venue worthy of the New York Philharmonic. About 1,400 people jammed the hall--a few dozen foreign diplomats and business people, the rest North Koreans. When Maazel took the podium, it quickly became clear that the evening would be one of emotion. North Korean and U.S. flags stood at either end of the stage, and the audience rose as both nations' anthems were played...