Just like the dutch coffeehouses, and countless wall street bars, and stock message boards, Twitter is going to have either a low signal to noise ratio if you are being polite, and a lot of BS if you are not.

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The change is similar to that of neighboring Hoboken, long an Italian enclave where legions of young Wall Street types have flocked in the past decade, interspersing trendy bars with old-time restaurants.

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Mr. Agha, who spent four years behind bars for organizing the kidnapping of United Nations officials in 2004, provided in a Wall Street Journal interview a rare glimpse of the Taliban's goals in the negotiating process.

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