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...school in 1999 sold a large apartment complex it had owned in the neighborhood and earlier this year sold a nearby strip of commercial property...
...returned to Cambridge to digest more fully, it just keeps coming back to me in moments and in images. I think I will probably always view it that way. There will be the signs and lights of Leicester Square, the overpowering family circus that is the Vegas strip, the look on the face of a man who waged his last political campaign and must adjust permanently to life as a private citizen. The memories of this summer won’t soon fade, but as the years roll merrily along, I know what will remain brightest. I won?...
...called Googie style popular in the 1950s and '60s; in Los Angeles. Despite heavy protest from preservationists, one of the three coffee shops was razed in 1984. Stern also played a key role in redefining the Las Vegas skyline; amid the low-slung hotels that pioneered the Strip, he built the 26-story Mint Hotel and the towering MGM Grand...
...using them to justify a bill. Two such cases came earlier this month, when the House approved oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. There are a total of 19 million acres in the refuge, and in 1980 Congress set aside 1.5 million of them along a strip of the refuge's northern Arctic Ocean coast for possible oil exploration. Oil companies and Alaska's congressional delegation have been anxious ever since to start drilling there. The oil companies believe 5 to 16 billion barrels of oil could be recovered there, while Alaskans are eager for the revenue...
...wrapped in chadors. As the authorities rounded up 500 known prostitutes, police - sent from Tehran to help local forces track down a supposed serial killer - arrested a 39-year-old married builder. ISRAEL Voice of Reason Palestinians fought each other over the arrest of militants in the Gaza Strip. Gunmen fired on Palestinian security forces in Gaza City after Hamas members were picked up on suspicion of violating the cease-fire. To counter the violence, a group of 100 leading Israeli and Palestinians, including former Israeli cabinet minster Yossi Beilin and Palestinian Information Minister Abed Rabbo, signed a joint declaration...