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...sagging approval ratings, the public displeasure at events in Iraq and his inability to win support for his Social Security plan suggest that Bush doesn't have the leverage he once did: he could not afford a nominee so toxic to Democrats that the move would unravel the truce struck by a bipartisan group of 14 Senators and possibly trigger a filibuster...
...Hiroshima officials struck on the idea of reinventing the city. They proposed the construction of a large peace memorial as the city's new anchor. The memorial eventually became the Peace Memorial Park, a graceful 30-acre site not far from ground zero, designed by the late famed Japanese architect Kenzo Tange and completed in 1954. The park's emotional centerpiece became the Peace Museum, dedicated to recalling the horror of nuclear war. Over the next two years, the occupation government gave Hiroshima the extra aid, which helped the city begin to recover--both psychologically and economically. Akiba, the current...
...attacks were the work of suicide bombers. The first explosion came shortly after 1 a.m. local time in the old market, an open square surrounded by shops that are often filled with both tourists and locals on weekends. The second attacker struck nearby, driving a car into the lobby of the Ghazala Garden Hotel. The roof collapsed, and police Saturday looked amid the rubble for survivors and the dead. Soon after the first two attacks, a bomb left inside a bag in a parking lot went off, killing six tourists. It's unclear who carried out the assult, though...
...then it struck me: I’m blatantly jealous. When my friends drop the fact that they went for drinks with some of the full-time traders at their banking jobs or had free lunches with powerful lawyers in their firm, I am just wishing I were in their position...
...course not,? he replies angrily. ?Sabbah never killed innocents. And his men only used a dagger, never poisons or easy ways of killing. They studied their victims, spent years getting close to them before they struck...