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...there in college and had been very, very much acquainted with the literary history of Key West. Key West didn't have really much musical history then-it was much more of a literary history, and a history of a really interesting, intriguing place at the end of the road, so I would've gotten there anyway. It's just I opted for going in luxury with Jerry Jeff...
...women can't make the mortgage anymore," says Mark Calabria, a senior economist at the National Association of Realtors. Orna Yaary, 42, a single mother and an interior designer, recalls that in the 1980s her single-women clients typically viewed their home as a temporary way station on the road to marriage. "It was like these single women with suitcases at the door, they wanted something but not anything permanent," says Yaary. Now she's decorating apartments for women like the 35-year-old investment banker who ordered built-in furniture and reconstructed the bathroom of her apartment...
Smack in the heart of 'Londonistan' sits the Edgware Road, known for its mosques, colorful markets selling headscarves and niquabs and, above all, famous all-night shisha cafes. Since they were set up in the 1980s, the cafes have become a mecca for students, bohemians and free-thinkers of various stripe to congregate with Muslims and engage in that most ubiquitous of Middle Eastern pastimes, smoking the hookah. Scented tobacco is burned on coals and sucked through an ornate water vessel before being inhaled, inducing a strong nicotine high. Originally intended for visiting Gulf sheikhs and Middle Eastern expats...
...Edgware road the cafes remain full long into the night as customers savour their final few days of freedom to puff. Tobias, a bingo-hall worker in his twenties, has come all the way from the suburbs with his girlfriend for dinner - and some shisha...
...particularly startling because President Kirchner actually leads the First Lady in the most recent polls, at a 55% approval rating, according to one survey, to her 45%. The same polls show that, in any case, either Kirchner would easily defeat the leading opposition candidate, the middle-of-the-road anti-corruption candidate Elisa Carrio of the ARI party, who has only a 12% rating. Kirchner's former economy minister Roberto Lavagna, who is seen by many as having masterminded Argentina's recovery from the economic chaos that preceded Kirchner, has only an 11% chance...