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...What's more, figuring out who's a real star, when so many top athletes are marketed as one, has never been trickier. But millions of fans still crave the distraction sport can offer: witness the frenzy that followed Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's electrifying performances at this summer's World Championship in Athletics. (Read: "The World's Fastest Human...
...interesting twist to the demise of Herrell’s—one that isn’t necessarily explained by rising operating costs or the strain of the recession. Apparently, JP Licks, a competing ice-cream vendor that opened in a strategic Mass. Ave. location last summer, benefitted from financial incentives offered by Harvard University. The university owns the real estate JP Licks currently occupies, and it essentially invited the franchise in, offering the popular Boston-area chain preferential access to the space and a lease at a below-market rate. To some, such incentives smack of the sort...
...Over the summer, public opinion on the public option only seemed to shift often and abruptly. Much of this confusion had to do with the wording of pollsters’ questions: When asked if they supported the inclusion of a “public option” in the health-care bill, respondents answered affirmatively about 65 percent of the time and negatively about 35 percent of the time. When asked if they supported the inclusion of a “government option” in the health-care bill (with the same details listed), these numbers would then change...
That's good news for folks like Marie and Sal Latella who had their four-bedroom Colonial on and off the market for nearly three years before deciding to rent it out this summer. Now, settled in a rental of their own just 15 minutes away, the Latellas' sons are in a better school district (a big reason for the move), and the family is still close enough to swing by their old place every so often to keep...
...American casualties soared to record numbers over the summer, European troop deaths have been creeping upward, provoking hard questions about the exact nature and objectives of the mission from London to Berlin. "The public doesn't really understand what we are doing there," says Romano. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' new offensive in Afghanistan...