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Here's the basic setup: you've been captured by a demented movie director who plops you down in an abandoned slum infested with gang members. The gang members think they're hunting you. They are sadly mistaken. You are hunting them, with whatever weapons--a plastic bag, a sawed-off 12 gauge--you can lay your ruthless, muscular hands on. Meanwhile, the director gleefully captures the gore on film...
...Franco-German case, the loser is Europe and its common currency. Britain and Sweden, the two most prominent outsiders, will now think thrice before joining the euro zone. Why allow others to fiddle with the stability of your money just because their national interests demand it? The basic reasoning behind the stability pact was this: only if each and all maintain fiscal discipline will inflation and devaluation be kept at bay. Now that the pact is practically dead, each and all will feel free to do as they please. Think about European monetary union as a train made...
...saunter languidly past the ruins of the ancient Guatemalan city of Antigua ("Spain's capital of all of middle America, until the epic earthquake of 1773," according to the book). The guide's page-long entries each include a lively explanation as to why you would want to go, basic logistics information, prices and hotel phone numbers, making it both an easy read and an insightful travel primer. For the special-interest explorer, the index also sorts destinations into categories such as museums, adventure, food and the ancient world. One word of warning, however: with everything from the Tuscan hills...
...transfer of political authority could also become a source of new instability. That may be unavoidable in a situation where, having eliminated the authoritarian regime in Baghdad, the U.S. is now presiding over an unruly contest for power among ethnically-oriented political forces looking to rewrite Iraq's basic political arithmetic that has been dominated by the Sunni minority ever since the British first cobbled together three Ottoman provinces to create Iraq. Even as they wage a full-blown counterinsurgency war against the Sunni insurgents, U.S. officials in Iraq will be anxiously watching the complex political interplay among the Shiites...
...Faculty Council will discuss concerns about the University’s vision for an Allston campus today, including those raised in a recent letter by one of its members criticizing several of the administration’s basic assumptions...