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Colin Powell's mea culpa — and a nagging question
27 May 2012, 2:13 am
It’s sobering, on this Memorial Day weekend, to read the chapters on Iraq in Colin Powell’s new book, to ponder the waste of soldiers’ lives that resulted from the peremptory decision to wage war on the basis of specious intelligence.
The Six Digit Club: A prewar East Village Co-op for $599K
26 May 2012, 1:16 pm
Welcome back to The Six Digit Club, in which we take a look at a newish-to-market listing priced under $1 million, because nice things sometimes come in small packages. Have a nomination? Send it to the tipline. Click here to...
Rolling around Sendagi
26 May 2012, 10:48 am
The Yanesen district of central Tokyo, whose name features bits of the names of the three neighborhoods it comprises (Yanaka, Nezu and Sendagi), charms visitors with its temple-studded streets, craft shops and
prewar architecture. Oddly, though, maps in either Japanese or English rarely guide visitors west of the Chiyoda subway line's Sendagi Station, which is where most of Sengagi is to be ...
Collapse of facade alarms traders
16 May 2012, 7:16 pm
FEARS that an old dilapidated building may collapse anytime soon proved true when the facade of the
prewar building collapsed recently. The building in Jalan Lama, which has been empty for more than 10 years, started to crumble over the years and the front portion finally gave way recently.
Batiste and Stay Human Band offer thoroughly modern vintage jazz
9 May 2012, 6:19 pm
History hangs more heavily than the damask on the walls of the opulent Music Room in the Turkish ambassador’s residence. It was in that room during the swing era that brothers Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun — the then-ambassador’s sons — hosted performances by the
prewar jazz greats , a precursor to their founding of Atlantic Records. Tuesday night the room, full of business-suited bureaucrats ...
Flores de Mayo and the Filipinos' Marian devotion
30 April 2012, 10:20 pm
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - The simplicity of the outfit highlights the expressive beauty of the face of this 19thcentury Virgen Inmaculada Concepcion of Italian provenance.
Flores de Mayo exhibit in Malolos shows Filipinos’ Marian devotion across the centuries
29 April 2012, 2:19 pm
A
prewar print of the Blessed Virgin in full regalia wearing her gold crown and in ceremonial robes, flanked by double columns with elaborately embroidered drapery and a cartouche of Philippine flora like the rosal, dahlia, gumamela and sampaguita framing her venerable image, epitomizes the passion many Filipinos have for Mary.
World - prewar
A prewar East Village Co-op for $599K - curbed
26 May 2012, 1:04 pm
Welcome back to The Six Digit Club, in which we take a look at a newish-to-market listing priced under $1 million, because nice things sometimes come in small packages. Have a nomination? Send it to the tipline.
New York City parking spot goes for $1 million - msnbc.com
23 May 2012, 2:55 pm
This seven-figure private garage is in an eight-story,
prewar loft building in the city's Greenwich Village neighborhood. It previously had been converted into a parking garage and is now being turned into half a dozen new luxury condominiums ...
When Americans Celebrated the Federal Debt - Bloomberg
17 May 2012, 3:38 pm
Although voters elected presidents who promised a "return to normalcy" in the 1920s, the federal debt never did revert to its
prewar size. Neither did the government retreat from the economic realm. By 1929, net per-capita federal expenditures ...
3-point stance: Johnson good with Golden - ESPN
17 May 2012, 3:35 am
3. A very happy 100th birthday Thursday to Ace Parker, one of the greatest American athletes of the
prewar era. Parker starred for Wallace Wade at Duke from 1934-36 as a single-wing tailback (5.9-yard rushing average), punter and defensive back.
Libya’s vast oil potential remains in flux - calgaryherald.com
7 May 2012, 11:18 am
Restoration of production to
prewar levels just four months after Colonel Moammar Gadhafi was killed in the desert has been hailed by the Western backers of the new government. However recent developments have provoked warnings that mismanagement could ...
