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...lean frame and flowing mane, Bob Hawke also looks terrific for a bloke who'll turn 78 a fortnight after the Nov. 24 election. Rich nowadays and in want of nothing material, what he'd like most for his birthday is a change of government. On this warm weekday afternoon, at a mall in Sydney's eastern suburbs, he and the Labor Party are hoping some of the old magic might rub off on the local candidate. "Let's go," he says...
Late each weekday afternoon, the Pentagon issues a list of all the contracts it has awarded that day. Last Thursday, well down on the roster, was a trio of contracts to three companies for more than $1 billion to buy 2,400 Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles for U.S. troops in Iraq. There is no doubt such heavy-duty vehicles are needed. Improvised-explosive devices account for more than half the U.S. fatalities in Iraq; and the characteristic V-shaped hulls of these vehicles are engineered to deflect blasts from roadside bombs away from the troops within. So the push...
...would make up for having to carry my passport around as proof of being 21. There is comfort, though, in knowing that, if the opportunity presented itself, I could hijack the Hamptons jitney or make the six-hour, 25-mile trip to New Jersey at six p.m. on a weekday...
FlexPetz founder Marlena Cervantes counters that the firm safeguards its animals through customer screening and mandatory training. "We are giving these pets an opportunity to be taken care of," she says. And with $700 in annual fees, plus $25 per weekday rental and $40 per day on the weekend, these pets don't come cheap. But that hasn't kept animal lovers from ponying...
According to audience members, a pavement compressor was working between 2:30 and 5 a.m. on a weekday morning last week on Rotterdam Street—a street belonging to Harvard University near Western Avenue in Allston. No parking signs were posted on the chain...