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...Frankly, Sheriff Dart's actions mystify me.' Craigslist CEO JIM BUCKMASTER, saying the volume of ads for erotic services had dropped 90% to 95% in Chicago and four other U.S. cities since tougher measures were put in place last year...
...implemented such measures in recent months, according to the World Bank. Individual nations' attempts to preserve jobs and industries through tariffs or subsidies "can lead to a negative spiral of events," according to the bank's president. In its report, the bank says 47 separate isolationist measures have been put in place since November...
Clinton's trip is the first step in solving the U.S. side of the equation. She took with her a plan to put more than 500 new federal agents in border states, cut off arms-smuggling into Mexico and lasso more of the billions of dollars heading back to drug cartels. Meanwhile, the Merida Initiative, a bilateral plan that began last year, is supposed to funnel almost $1.5 billion to Mexican President Felipe Calderón's offensive against the cartels...
FILM COMPOSERS DON'T write melodies so much as emotions; their music is the heartbeat that gives movie images instant and lasting resonance. Jarre, who died in Los Angeles on March 29 at 84, put this knowledge to use in his first famous scores: the heroic theme that lent a galloping grandeur to David Lean's 1962 Middle Eastern western, Lawrence of Arabia, and the chorus of balalaikas in Lean's 1965 Doctor Zhivago that promised ecstatic reunion after the grimmest separation. In a half-century of movie work, Jarre wrote the music for more than 150 features...
...simply and clearly.†When presented with a memo directing staffers to “obscure all Federal buildings…from visibility by reason of internal or external illumination,†Franklin Roosevelt told his assistants that if a blackout occurred, “to put something across the windows.†Real leaders—and real people—do not speak in jargon...