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...can’t even believe how fast how fast this stuff can happen,” McNitt said. “The walls were literally being torn down. The place is just demolished...
...goes, a slowdown is when your neighbor's out of work; a recession is when you are. And while the unemployment picture is not really all that bad - as the August unemployment number is expected to show, not all announced cuts turn into real cuts, some pink slips get torn up, and decently skilled workers are finding other jobs - a million job cuts is the kind of number that can make even a patriotic consumer stop and think: What if next month I'm the neighbor...
...attempting a sequel to the propaganda bonanza that was Elian I may backfire on the Cubans. It was, after all, the image of a child's emotional life being torn apart by politics that made the anti-Castro forces the losers last time around. Bringing the boy back into the political limelight in New York might well play the other way. Or, to put it in culinary terms, you can't reheat a souffl?...
...during a recent visit with Somaliland's minister of information. You probably haven't heard of Somaliland - it's a would-be country in the north-western bit of Somalia, a nation state that ceased to function as such a decade ago. But while the south has been torn apart by incessant violence ever since and is only now attempting to move beyond government by the ubiquitous warlords, Somaliland has forged a more peaceful path. It has created its own government, and issued currency and passports. Not that a Somaliland passport will get you anywhere - although a declaration of independence...
...Under Suharto there were no rules, nothing. You could be thrown into prison without first going to court. If you were found with anything to read, even a piece of torn newspaper, you could be killed. If you were a prisoner in Jakarta you could receive visitors?but for that...