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I live and work near the Hamra Hotel compound, where many foreign journalists live and work. On Monday, my main assignments for the day were positively mundane: first, to get a plumber to fix the burst pipe at the office, and then head over to the oil ministry, where Exxon...
An estimated 672,000 people are homeless on any given night, and over the course of a year, between 2 million and 3 million people experience homelessness for a few weeks or a few months. The chronic homeless, many of whom have psychological or substance-abuse problems, comprise only 20...
Ultimately, these clashing worldviews converged in one odd respect. Both the majority and minority seemed to be writing from a parallel universe, not quite our own. Kennedy's imagined world of stifled corporations and voiceless labor unions bears no resemblance to the America we live in, where the government pumps...
To say the least. The controversy stems from a single paragraph in Chapter 10 of the report's second section, which claimed that glaciers in the Himalayas were receding faster than in any other part of the world, and that "if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing...
Many had expected the earnings at financial firms to drop in the fourth quarter of 2009. A number of the biggest firms at the end of last year rushed to repay the tens of billions of dollars they had received under the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program. Analysts said...