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...been reported missing several months ago. Wark sad that the body had likely been in the water for the entire time that he had been missing. “Sadly, it is not uncommon for a body that may have been in the water through the winter to suddenly come to the surface in the spring after warmer temperatures,” he said, “It appears that may have been the case with this individual.” At approximately 1 p.m. Monday, a jogger observed what he believed to be a dead body near Eliot Bridge...
When asked how his New Year celebrations have been, the pilgrim - a middle-aged businessman wearing a heavy winter coat against the bitter winds that knife through the monastery's narrow alleys - immediately glances up and then over his shoulder. It is the universal, instinctive reaction of Tibetans I talked to on a recent trip to China's far western province of Qinghai, where ethnic Tibetans make up the majority of the population in the areas closest to the Qinghai-Tibet border. "Cameras," he hisses, nodding upward. "The police have them everywhere...
...nation's dark past. Chirac broke with the traditional French depiction of wartime events by accepting, in the name of France, responsibility for the July 15-16, 1942 arrests of 13,000 Jews by French police. Known as the "Vel d'Hiv roundup" - after the name of the winter cycling stadium in Paris the deportees were held in - the infamous case was cited by Chirac as an example of active French participation in Jewish persecution. Chirac called on his French countrymen to accept responsibility for the Vichy regime just as they celebrate the anti-Nazi efforts of General Charles...
...financial system. Economist Nouriel Roubini, who probably has several advanced degrees, wrote in The Washington Post that the Swedes set a precedent for bank nationalization nearly 20 years ago. The first counter to his argument is that it is dark over 20 hours a day in Sweden during the winter which causes a level of depression among the population that may undermine their judgment and views of how dire any economic situation is. If this theory is true, banks in Panama will never face being taken over by the government...
...wonderfully accurate, thanks to sketches of the family home prepared in 1860 for magazine readers eager to know more about their new president. In fact, much of the furniture is authentic - you can see the chairs Lincoln sat in, the desk he wrote on, the stove he stoked in winter. Mary used a chamberpot; Abe preferred the outhouse. (See pictures of how people are cashing in on Barack Obama around the world...