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Harvard also said that its real-estate buying spree in Allston has come to a halt for the time being. After Harvard takes control of the Charlesview apartment complex, the University has “no immediate plans” to add more property to its existing 350 acres in Allston, according to the chief of the Allston Development Group, Christopher M. Gordon...
...took TIME six weeks to piece together our investigation - the clincher was an interview with a girl who survived a killing spree by Marines inside her home - and then we turned our evidence over to the U.S. military command in Baghdad. The military launched a full inquiry, which lasted 13 months, splitting into two separate investigations: the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians, and the failure of Marine superior officers to truthfully investigate and report what had happened. In other words, some of the Marines tried to cover up the slayings...
...life on any movie set. Or in any political campaign (Tanner '88, the TV series he concocted with Garry Trudeau, plays now like a prophetic parody of media manipulation by such masters as James Carville and Karl Rove). Or any reception (A Wedding), convention (H.E.A.L.T.H.), concert (Nashville), casino spree (California Split), couture opening (Ready to Wear), country weekend (Gosford Park) or old-time radio show (A Prairie Home Companion). Any social gathering, in fact, where people advance the friendly fraud of being themselves, where politics and showbiz overlap, where the action spills fro> m the stage into the audience...
...Delhi also helped clear the way for the recent buying spree. Last year, the government doubled the cap on how much Indian companies can annually invest abroad to 200% of a company's net worth. Thanks to the boom at home?India's GDP growth has averaged 8% a year over the past three years?many companies are financially stronger than ever before. Net profits are up nearly 40% this year, according to a recent report from Motilal Oswal Securities, which surveyed 127 publicly traded companies from various sectors. Besides having deep pockets, many Indian companies have been around...
...contain nine Hamas ministers, six from Fatah, five independents including Prof. Shabir, and four others from parties within the parliament. The next foreign minister is likely to be to a Georgetown educated professor, Ziad Abu Amr, 56, who has ties with Hamas even though he criticized their suicide bombing spree (halted since 2004) and thinks that the Islamic militants should soften some of their attitudes towards Israel. The finance portfolio is expected to go to economist Salam Fayyad, 54, educated in Texas, who earned the respect of international financial institutions during his previous tenure as finance minister between...