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...Moustaqim (Straight Path), which officials say recruited the bombers. "That's a major contrast with Islamist networks in the Gulf and Middle East, which rely mostly on the educated, cultivated upper-middle and affluent classes for members," notes a French terrorism official. "The Casablanca attackers were closer to [convicted shoe bomber] Richard Reid." To carry out the Casablanca attacks, Straight Path selected Sidi Moumen residents without police records or previous involvement with radical Islam, according to Moroccan authorities. The operatives were radicalized and trained for their suicide mission in a mere four months. Some had been sent abroad for instruction...
Madrid is a city full of single-lane roads, crowded cafés and neighborhood bread shops. Some streets are devoted almost entirely to shoe stores, others to books or electronics or trendy club wear. On Sundays, in a tradition dating back 500 years, the entire Rastro neighborhood becomes a vast outdoor flea market, where shoppers can get anything from a rug to a kitchen set to an automobile wheel. So does Madrid really need an American-style megamall - one that comes with a 250-m ski run? A developer called Mills Corp., based in Arlington, Virginia, is betting...
...store defines itself by its merchandise, and Wal-Mart is no more obligated to carry men's magazines than a women's shoe store is to sell beer and doughnuts. I hope by printing that here, I have copyrighted that idea. And while Wal-Mart sells guns, hunting knives, cigarettes, Wiggles DVDs and other things I wouldn't feel comfortable putting on the shelves in my shoe-beer-and-doughnuts store, its job isn't to be morality police. Wal-Mart's business is not to offend its customers, most of whom are, for reasons that may have...
...store defines itself by its merchandise, and Wal-Mart is no more obligated to carry men's magazines than a women's shoe store is to sell beer and doughnuts. I hope by printing that here, I have copyrighted that idea. And while Wal-Mart sells guns, hunting knives, cigarettes, Wiggles DVDs and other things I wouldn't feel comfortable putting on the shelves in my shoe-beer-and-doughnuts store, its job isn't to be morality police. Wal-Mart's business is not to offend its customers, most of whom are, for reasons that may have...
...Vietnam, and then, after returning to Los Angeles, he worked as an air-traffic controller, a Hughes Aircraft manufacturing coordinator and a real estate agent. When the cold war ended and Southern California's economy slumped, Warner moved to New Jersey and took a low-wage position as a shoe salesman. He worked hard, but the job didn't really pay off--until the day he fit a pair of black, Italian flats on the slender feet of Mary Del Guidice...