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...dynamite plant used to be. They don't mind chains, like Starbucks and The Gap. They just don't want a Wal-Mart, which they believe will crush the small stores like sugar ants. Hercules has found no legal means of forbidding Wal-Mart from building on the vacant lot it owns, so this week the city voted to use eminent domain and take the $15 million lot from Wal-Mart. So far that appears legal. Across the Bay in San Francisco, people cheered...
...after five months of bickering and brinkmanship, has been greeted with a mixture of incredulity and skepticism by many Iraqis. "All that time spent in negotiations, and they couldn't fill the most important positions," says schoolteacher Salah Ubeidi, referring to three security-related posts that have been left vacant for now. "Why should we trust them to make the important decisions that need to be made...
Fink said The Blue Line will fill a niche left vacant by existing outlets like the Perspective, Harvard’s liberal monthly, and the Harvard Political Review...
...having spied on the organization for the British, was found murdered in Ireland on April 4. The I.R.A. denied any involvement, but TIME's Jan. 10, 1972, cover story explained how the group's brutality could be turned on its own people: "On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh the old slogans of idealism and hatred: 'Up the I.R.A.' and 'Informers Beware' ... British command announced that children playing with toy guns run the risk of being shot. The reason for the statement was that...
...lapsing on the terms of its lease, will vacate the property at the beginning of August. Members of the Allston Task Force, a 16-person watchdog body appointed by the mayor to review Harvard’s plan, repeatedly press the University to find tenants for its currently vacant properties along Western Avenue. Moran said it was hard to judge how the University’s presence would impact the neighborhood at this point in the process.“That remains to be seen,” says Moran. “They’ve done nothing...