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...cost the government more than $150 million, and it took the lives of two firefighters in a construction fire last year. The rest of the 16-acre site is a tangle of more than 100 contractors and subcontractors without any real central guidance. Twin Towers developer Larry Silverstein has, in the view of critics, spent too much time litigating and not enough time cooperating. The Environmental Protection Agency first dangerously downplayed health risks immediately after 9/11, and then, as if to compensate, transformed itself into an über-regulator, fighting efforts to streamline some of the most basic demolition processes...
...Hashem Bajwa, digital planning director at the San Francisco-based ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, itself part of a satirical moon-based ad campaign for Rolling Rock, notes the irony of this year's Google gag: "It's not a total disconnect from what Google does. So many people are asking, what will Google do next? If anyone would do it, it would be Google...
...really broke? How is that possible? -Angie Silverstein, Salt Lake CityI have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks. At the moment, I am on a good upswing financially. But that could all change in a minute...
...under house arrest himself. Despite scattered reports of soldiers refusing to shoot against Buddhist monk-led demonstrators last week, most of the wide-eyed recruits obeyed orders. "Burma's military is a breed apart, and its biggest accomplishment is the sense of loyalty that it has bred," says Josef Silverstein, a Burma expert and professor emeritus at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "Few forces appear so unified...
...arrest on corruption charges. Dissident groups in neighboring Thailand are peopled with former army officers who had the temerity to suggest alternative ways to run the country. "Burma's military is a breed apart, and its biggest accomplishment is the sense of loyalty that it has bred," says Josef Silverstein, a Burma expert and retired professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "Few forces appear so unified...