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...financial district that has grown out of abandoned docklands to the east of the City in recent years, is already home to Citigroup, HSBC and Bank of America. And on Aug. 1, JPMorgan ditched plans to build its European headquarters in the City in favor of a development across town in Canary Wharf. (Rivals Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch remain in the City, though...
...down. " The percussion and fragments from what human rights monitors confirm as a cluster bomb blew out the windows but the building stood. Maglakelidze says he was anxious to stay on to do what he could to protect the museum, but two days later, when looters descended on the town , he decided to pack up the most prized exhibits - including the Kant letter and death mask, and drive them through the roadblocks ringing the city to the safety of the capital 50 miles away...
...into his bed. Their avid emotions are the canvas on which he splashes the bright strokes of his evanescent ardor. Cristina, ready for an adventure, lures the painter to her and Vicky's table, and Juan Antonio, ever the gracious roue, proposes that the Americans accompany him to the town of Oviedo. "We'll eat well, we'll drink good wine, we will make love." "Who will make love?" asks Vicky with a schoolmarm's moral skepticism. "Hopefully, the three of us," he purrs...
...points east, and which has been cut since the weekend - was supposed to have been clear on Wednesday, following a cease-fire between Russian and Georgian forces on Tuesday. The Georgian government announced its opening last night. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had planned to visit the town tomorrow, taking this road. But earlier today it remained cut off by Russian troops. Georgians, even senior politicians, as well as aid workers and journalists, were being turned back, reflecting ongoing confusion about the state of the cease-fire...
Even the governor of Gori was barred from returning to his town today. Waiting at a police checkpoint in his black Toyota Land Cruiser some 48 km (30 miles) from Gori, he said the Georgian government ordered him to leave yesterday for his own security after looters overran the town, ransacking his home and office. He said that, according to his sources, local Ossetians are urging Russian troops to stay. "They (Ossetians) don't want to be exposed (to retribution)," said the governor, Vladimir Vardzelashvili...