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...marketing any business, including the Hornets, in a post-Katrina New Orleans faces challenges. New Orleans was already the second-smallest NBA market before the storm; now, with 600,000 TV households in the metropolitan area, it's the smallest. About 300,000 people live within the city, just 66% of the pre-Katrina population of 455,000, and the local economy still hasn't rebounded...
...Michael Bills, the commander for U.S. forces in Mosul, has ruled out using so-called Concerned Local Citizens (CLC), bands of irregulars working alongside American and Iraqi troops in parts of Baghdad, Anbar Province and other areas of Iraq. "You got such a melting pot it's difficult to even fathom trying to do a CLC up here," Bills said of the Mosul area, where the population is complex mix of Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups. The territory around Mosul has long been home to Kurds, Sunnis, Christians, Shi'ites, Yazidis and Turkmens. Bills fears any efforts to organize...
...years ago. The only thing that unites the two groups is China's continued growth. My middle-class neighbors, like Yu Xiang, take it as a given. "As long as there is economic development that will allow me to work and raise my family in a nice new area," he says, "that's what I hope for now. My whole family does. We hope to stay here a long time...
Since the great majority of the voters live or work in the Los Angeles area, there is little motive to reward foreign-language films. Few movie lovers would deny that some of the medium's greatest works have been in tongues other than English. Yet no foreign-language film has ever won the top Oscar; only eight have been nominated--and one of them was directed by Clint Eastwood. That's less than 2% for the best films from the rest of the world...
...relationship that they are willing to list on Facebook. This is low—25% of Northeastern students, 27% of UMass students, 24% of Emerson students, and 22% of BU students are listed as “in a relationship.” So why are our area counterparts coupling up at rates almost twice ours...