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...carrot to the "reformist" administration of Iran's then-President Mohammad Khatami. The E.U. followed suit after 9/11, but as the drums of war began sounding against Iraq, Rajavi and her husband, Massoud, left Camp Ashraf. Massoud's whereabouts are unknown, but Maryam repaired to a bridgehead in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town northwest of Paris. French anti-terrorist police raided the place in 2003, securing millions of euros and taking Rajavi and some of her collaborators into custody. Several of Rajavi's followers set themselves on fire to protest her arrest, confirming official French concerns about the cultish...
...Ireland shop start with their regular retail-base model and then build out with the customized choices. It's like Pimp My Shirt. But since I was interested in finding someone to make a garment that hugged my contours as well as satisfied my whims, I headed to Seize sur Vingt, a small men's boutique that promised to make me a shirt from scratch...
...expats came here via Costa Rica or another nearby foreign-retirement country, looking for a place where they could stay one step ahead of the real estate boom. And property prices in colonial towns such as Granada, and in beach areas like San Juan del Sur - where some 50 development projects have popped up in the last five years - have grown by as much as 300% in three years...
...Other investors are echoing Cobb's guarded optimism. A group of 18 key investors in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua's most important beach town, have written a letter to Ortega urging the president-elect to hold a special meeting with them as a sign of his commitment to tourism and investment on the coast. The group warned that the tourism sector is "very volatile to political perceptions," and claimed that some investors have already started to withdraw their money from the country...
...Bush Administration worked hard to prevent Ortega from being elected, even threatening to cut aid to Nicaragua if he won the election, and some investors fear the consequences of any move by Washington to make life difficult for a Sandinista government. Says Chris Berry, owner of San Juan del Sur's landmark Pelican Eyes Piedras y Olas Resort, "Everyone here is more afraid of what the U.S. will do than they are of Ortega...