Year: 2004
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1450 W. Blackhawk
Permit #: 20409529 Applicant: Midwest Wrecking Company Owner: N/A Permit Description: Emergency demolition by Department of Buildings of rear two-story frame portion of building damaged by fire Status (if applicable): Exempt from Demolition-Delay Ordinance
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Attack on Market and a Roadside Bombing Kill 28 Iraqis
April 25, 20004 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 24 — At least 14 Iraqis were killed Saturday when mortar bombs or rockets were fired into a crowded chicken market in Sadr City, the district on Baghdad’s outskirts that is a stronghold of the rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr, Iraqi police officers and hospital officials…
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GoogObits: Money (Leo C. O’Neill, 64, Executive Who Led S.& P. Expansion, Dies)
I am fascinated by the meaning of money. Not just on a workady, “I don’t got no money” level (though I am extremely familiar with that), but on the level where economics & finance meet chaos theory & psychic hotlines. Credit ratings sit at the center of this stuff. If you’re a big business, Standard & Poor’s is always…
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GoogObits: Reporters = Poets (Murray Illson, 91, a Times Reporter Who Gave a Deft Touch to the Mundane, Dies)
I passionately love good reporters. They are the best poets around. Here in the middle of “Be Condescending to a Poet Month“, all hail Murray Illson. April 8, 2004Murray Illson, 91, a Times Reporter Who Gave a Deft Touch to the Mundane, DiesBy THE NEW YORK TIMES Murray Illson, a retired reporter for The New…
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The Swearing of Condoleeza Rice
KEAN. Thank you. Dr. Rice, would you please rise and raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? CONDOLEEZZA RICE. I do. —From the text of her testimony as published in the NYT