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AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands — Within five minutes of stepping off the train and onto the platform in Central Station when I arrived here earlier this month, I got a taste of the “typical Dutch” bluntness that my fellowship coordinators warned the nine other American students and me about...
...host families huddled in a group inside the station, each visibly eager to greet the American to whom they had voluntarily offered room and board (read: a cot and waffles) for the month, free of charge. Other than their height—one woman towered above me at a jaw-dropping 6’1”—what struck me about the families was what they represented, or failed to represent. Collectively, they showcased nearly every social variation possible, from age to sexual orientation. My own host family included a self-professed socialist lawyer and a pregnant...
...federal funding that is available. The combination of increased ridership - triggered at least in part by higher gas prices, which are unlikely to drop over the long run - and aging infrastructure "is stressing the transit system to the breaking point," says Goldberg. (See a video from St. Pancras train station in London...
...Copney, who turned himself in to authorities at the Cambridge Police Station on May 21, was also formally charged last night with accessory after the fact of murder, attempt to commit a crime, and possession of a firearm, according to Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone...
...overturned," Anna Stavitskaya, the lawyer for Politkovskaya's son and daughter, told the judges, according to Russian media. "We are more interested in the mastermind and the killer," said Sergei Sokolov, deputy editor of Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper for which Politkovskaya worked, speaking to Ekho Moskvy, an independent radio station. "It's obvious that today's ruling was based on a political decision - not on a procedural one. For the authorities, the most important thing was simply to make sure someone goes to prison...