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...just like under communism," said Dana Okolicanyova, a 12-year-old protester, knowingly shaking her head despite having been born eight years after the communist regime fell in 1989. She says she plans to skip the first period of school on Mondays in order to avoid listening to the anthem...
Well, that was pretty fast. In December, when Tiger Woods announced he was taking an indefinite leave of absence from golf to try to repair his marriage to Elin Nordegren, breathless speculators figured he'd probably have to skip a whole year. After all, he had inflicted plenty of damage and had taken quite a hit himself. (See a brief history of the Tiger Woods scandal...
Location: Central. Nestled between Harvard Square shops and final clubs and just a short hop, skip, and jump away from the Yard, Adams real estate is unbeatable, figuratively and literally situated on the edge of the Mass. Avenue divide. You'll be literally a minute or two away from Boloco's, Tommy’s Value Convenience Store, Qdoba, and anything else in the Square...
...Instead of tackling that failing - an obvious priority for this century - Europe has spent much of the past few months obsessing over how Washington views it. Obama has visited Europe six times since taking office, and made just one trip to China. But the U.S. President's decision to skip the Spain summit, and his failure to attend the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, has had Europe acting like a jilted lover. French press reported that Sarkozy was forced to console an upset Merkel ahead of the Wall ceremony by painting Obama as a distant being...
...Beers warns that process has only just begun. "There is hope that somehow the square can be circled," he says. But "it is going to be increasingly hard to say there aren't difficult choices to be made." Hopefully our political leaders won't just skip town...