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...nothing so unique about our Square, where I regularly cut through the seating of Cambridge’s ABP so that I can avoid Spare Change Guy and the colonial-style bricks that destroy my heels. With the storefronts of my two former favorite coffee shops still vacant because of Harvard Real Estate’s prohibitively high rent, I am hard-pressed to remember what I liked about the area...
...some keen observers had predicted, nothing tangible came out of the meetings. But Sarkozy still got what he came for: a burnishing of his image as the new pivot player in U.S.-European relations - a role left vacant by the departure of Tony Blair as Prime Minister of Britain. And it's a role whose value on the continent Sarkozy recognizes. "What he wants is a bilateral relationship with Bush so that he can do what Blair so often did, which is serve as a swing between the U.S. and its European partners," says Jeremy Shapiro, a fellow...
...actual politician - until now. In a second-act surprise, the 67-year-old former civil servant is running for Hong Kong's Legislative Council; if she wins, she will become the unquestioned leader of the legislature's democratic caucus. The Dec. 2 by-election - for a seat made vacant by the death of pro-Beijing lawmaker Ma Lik - is being billed as the most dramatic in Hong Kong's history because of its implications for democratic reform. Chan faces the pro-Beijing camp's anointed candidate, former security chief Regina Ip. Defeat for Ip will be interpreted as a vote...
...private school, he does so on scholarship. Halsey Frost is a self-employed woodworker; he and his wife say they earn between $45,000 and $50,000 a year to provide for their family of six. Their 1936 rowhouse was purchased in 1990 for $55,000. It was vacant and in a run-down neighborhood that has improved since then, in part because of people like themselves who took a chance. It is now assessed at $263,140, though under state law the value of that asset is not taken into account in determining their eligibility for SCHIP. And while...
...heart of the city. By the 16th century an estimated 2,000 vessels and 3,000 watermen were on the river at any one time, and by 1800 it was so choked that ships might wait two weeks, at the mercy of "river pirates" and "scuffle hunters," for a vacant berth. London's answer was to build the great docks at Wapping and the Isle of Dogs, as well as gigantic warehouses to store the city's burgeoning trading wealth. Work on the docks spawned whole new riverside communities in areas such as Silvertown, which flourished for 150 years before...