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...decision, with Berlusconi's agreement, after the coalition partners threatened to walk; Castelli then survived a no-confidence vote 166 to 121. Curbing the Generals TURKEY In an unprecedented move, parliament passed a reform package limiting the role of the country's powerful military in politics. The new law strips the military-dominated National Security Council - a policy-making body that shadows the cabinet - of its executive powers, making it an advisory body only, and also allows for greater parliamentary scrutiny of military spending. Hospital Blast RUSSIA More than 41 people were killed and many more injured when a suicide...
...address, but apparently with no assets or funds - to do so. In the process, it has turned down at least one cash offer for the property that was substantially higher than its own valuation. The Finance Ministry paid a total of €16 million for rights to a strip of Wertheim land near Leipziger Platz that housed the postal service before the war. Oddly, the real estate was already officially registered as belonging to the government - so the Finance Ministry wrote a check for rights to property it already owned. The Ministry subsequently sold some of the property...
During the second half of the class, Billings leads his students to a ten-foot strip of paper extending across the floor. Together—some students making calculations on the boards, others measuring lengths on the paper—the students transform the strip into a line of numbers and their squares. They will have to raise points on the number line to their third and fourth powers for homework...
...insinuation of ads into formerly private domains, like taxis, elevators and even rest rooms. The latest entrant in the captive game: choo-choos for the Wayne Newton crowd. The $650 million Las Vegas Monorail, scheduled to open early next year, will run along the east side of the fabled Strip, carrying gamblers between casinos like the MGM Grand and Harrah's. Several companies will sponsor multicar trains, blanketing each car with logos and promotions. Hansen's Beverage has signed a 10-year, $10 million deal to sponsor the Monster train (named for its Monster Energy drink) and plans to give...
...thinks his second son, Kim Jong Chol, is "like a girl." The book claims Kim forces officials to attend nonstop banquets that last up to four days, a duty eased somewhat by the occasional presence of the "Group for Pleasure," young female dancers whom Kim often forces to strip. Other books in the Kim bibliography...