Word: townes
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According to Bombay Club owner Vinod Kapoor, Bombay Club is Gates' "favorite restaurant" and the professor goes there "two or three times a week when he is in town." Gates, who is not in town at present, could not be reached for comment...
...public good as they continue to solidify their grip on power. On Sept. 28, a public opinion poll conducted by the EKOM Center, a nongovernmental organization that promotes civil rights in Russia, showed that 66% of St. Petersburg residents oppose the project. A month ago, a packed town-hall meeting ended in acrimony after four hours of heated debate over the tower; security guards confiscated tear gas, knives and brass knuckles from the crowd - a sign that the controversy could even lead to violence. The Okhta Center's official website has also been inundated with virulent postings by residents...
Zelaya's Back In Town...
...Things have calmed down a lot," the boyish 41-year-old muses as he walks through a fair in Elkton, a town on the upper reaches of the Chesapeake Bay. Strolling past a booth for the Sons of Confederate Veterans and a church stand selling handmade floral crosses, Kratovil meets Donna Horgan, 54, a Cecil County real estate agent and a lifelong Democratic activist, who urges him to vote for a health-care bill - any bill. "Continuing to say no is not really an answer," Kratovil replies in agreement. Horgan is left with the definite impression that Kratovil will vote...
...difficult days for Kratovil, a freshman Democrat who beat his GOP opponent by 1 percentage point in a rural district that John McCain won by 18 points. He began his summer undecided about how to vote for the fairly liberal House health-care bills; after many dramatic (and unpleasant) town meetings, Kratovil was against all of them. Now he hopes the Senate measure will be more moderate and less costly than the three House versions. "I can't support the House versions," he says. "But in the end, I wouldn't rule out some compromise with the Senate...