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...Democratic candidates for president are forced to actually engage with one another in formal debates. These events offer valuable and potent opportunities for Americans to see the presidential hopefuls directly challenge each other’s policy proposals and present their cases to become the next commander-in-chief. Consequently, we are pleased to see that the schedule of three debates recently agreed upon by the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain includes considerable opportunities for questioning and free-form discussion. In the newly agreed upon formats, each topical segment will contain a few minutes for an opening overview...
...fires erupted over the weekend, leaving dozens of Cambridge residents stranded and one well known business closed until further notice. Shortly after 9:00 p.m. last night, a fire broke out in a Cambridge apartment complex on Harvard Street near Pennypacker Hall. According to Deputy Fire Chief Francis E. Murphy III, the fire was confined to a fourth floor condominium belonging to an elderly woman. Firefighters were able rescue the woman, who Murphy said probably suffered burns and smoke inhalation. Murphy said that the blaze was a two-alarm fire and that the cause of the incident is still unknown...
...Lula enters the homestretch of his presidency - it ends in 2011 - many of Brazil's oldest problems remain unsolved. Chief among them is its education system, which despite increased funding remains a dysfunctional shame. There's also rampant corruption, exorbitant taxes, Amazon deforestation and one of the world's most wasteful public bureaucracies. Lula, who many Brazilians hoped would tackle those plagues more forcefully, blames "a [political] structure that has been there for centuries" but which "we are trying to dismantle." To do that in the two years he has left, however, may require more divine intervention...
According to Deputy Fire Chief Steven G. Leonard, in most restaurants the hood vent releases smoke to the roof—but not at Bartley?...
...death toll, which is expected to rise still further, included four foreigners: Ivo Zdarek, the Czech Republic's ambassador to Pakistan, two Americans assigned to the U.S. Embassy, and a Vietnamese woman. "The target was the Marriott," Rehman Malik, the Interior Ministry chief, told a packed news conference in the gloom-filled Pakistani capital. Contradicting earlier reports that the original target had been the nearby parliament building, where newly-elected President Asif Ali Zardari had earlier made his inaugural address, Malik said the bombers had targeted an "international chain" in search of "international attention...