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Harris' nighttime tour begins at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, adjacent to the harbor where such diverse musical influences as Brazilian samba and American jazz once mingled with the traditional drum rhythms of the indigenous Xhoisan people to eventually form Cape Jazz...
...distinct vibe emanates from behind the 15-ft.-high chain fences reinforced with rebar and rimmed by razor wire that encircle the so-called "Waterfront" compound at Camp Bucca. It's different from the other compounds in this sprawling 100-acre, open-air U.S detention center close to the Kuwaiti border, the largest in Iraq, which houses a little over 10,000 of the 13,832 detainees currently in U.S custody. In other compounds hundreds of detainees mingle in expansive recreation yards, enjoy access to books, television and chess sets, and aren't locked in at night. There is noise...
...inmates confined to the Waterfront are kept in climate-controlled shipping containers with toilet facilities for 18 hours a day. There are about seven detainees per container, and up to 40 are allowed into one of the many recreation yards at any one time. "These guys are bad guys; they're the worst of the worst," says Brigadier General David Quantock, the commander of Task Force 134 which oversees the detention system in Iraq. He walks past a handful of detainees playing table tennis. "These are the guys the Iraqi government wants." (See pictures of the aftermath...
...Washington hoped to add to the homeowner rolls couldn't afford them - or eventually couldn't afford the monthly payments they had taken on. Meanwhile, affordable home construction became passé. What developer wanted to build humdrum houses for teachers and police officers when he could make a killing with waterfront condominiums that promised the glamorous lifestyle of murder suspects on CSI: Miami? (See pictures of the housing crisis in Cleveland...
...behalf of the general public [are] a well-established precedent in Chicago," says Patrick Ryan, chairman and CEO of Chicago 2016. Ryan remains optimistic that Chicago can raise enough money should it win the Games, not least because Chicago's proposed athletes' village would be located on a prime waterfront site that would be "extremely attractive for private development...