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...territories, in Gaza and in the West Bank - Western governments have refused to send aid that would in any way assist Hamas's armed ambitions. And with the electricity thus tainted, the E.U. cut off payments. The Israeli power company supplying half of Gaza's fuel just as promptly shut off supplies...
...says Sylvia Martinez, owner of The Goddess's Treasure Chest, several of the merchants complained to the council that the fairs stole their business during "haunted happenings season." They asked it to shut down unlicensed psychics and draw up guidelines of psychic ethics and quality. ("What are the criteria?" the Salem News reported a baffled councilwoman as asking.) One Salem police officer testified about a scam whereby adepts detected a "dark aura" around a tourist and then charged as much as $5,000 to remove...
Today that same market is telling rappers to please shut up. While music-industry sales have plummeted, no genre has fallen harder than rap. According to the music trade publication Billboard, rap sales have dropped 44% since 2000 and declined from 13% of all music sales to 10%. Artists who were once the tent poles at rap labels are posting disappointing numbers. Jay-Z's return album, Kingdom Come, for instance, sold a gaudy 680,000 units in its first week, according to Billboard. But by the second week, its sales had declined some 80%. This year rap sales...
...owns all this worthless paper. Think that's easy? Two weeks ago, no less than the CEO of BNP Paribas, the big French bank, said, in effect, no worries, folks. Its exposure to this stuff was, as he put it, "negligible." Yet last week, BNP had to shut down three of its own investment funds because of its exposure to investments linked to the subprime debacle. When the CEO doesn't know, that is the very definition of "not knowing what we don't know." "No one has a clue what they're sat on," says Gabriel Stein, chief international...
...year-old Square staple, the Greenhouse Coffee Shop & Restaurant, closed in April, while the popular Cafe Paradiso, which opened in 1984, shut its doors in June...