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...Similar stories are playing out all across Germany...
Heag Mobilo, a public-transportation company in Darmstadt, financed its purchases of new street cars through a similar arrangement. The city of Stuttgart leased and rented back its drinking-water system. Bottrop, a city in the Ruhr industrial region, financed a sewage-treatment plant in the same fashion, and Ulm, a southern German city, did such a deal to pay for construction of a refuse incinerator...
...former HCS President Josh A. Kroll ’09 said HCS had “offered to work with them for situations where they would need a high service load,” after the committee experienced similar difficulties last week when announcing their Class Speaker, “It was an unfortunate situation because the HCS could have provided the service that the SCC needed had they told us,” Kroll said. “It is clearly important that people believe in our abilities?...
...Another diversion is the “Ring Game,” which is similar to “Hot Potato.” Basically, someone starts off holding a small iron ring on stage at the beginning of the show. The ring then gets passed around from one character to the next without letting the audiences see. Whoever finishes the act with the ring loses, and the penalties for losing are acted out during the next show...
Blame for the violence has been cast on Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistan Taliban, whose associates claimed responsibility for last week's gun-and-grenade siege of a police training facility on the outskirts of Lahore and later vowed to carry out similar attacks in Pakistan "at least twice a week." Mehsud claimed that his new bombing campaign was retribution for CIA-operated drone attacks that have begun to shower on his fighters since the Obama Administration decided to broaden its range of targets. By focusing on Mehsud, who recently aligned his forces with al-Qaeda and Taliban...