"They loved being liberated from Saddam Hussein, but they hated being occupied by a foreign force," said Joost Hiltermann, deputy program director with the International Crisis Group.
The Rev. Frank Morales, an Episcopal priest who has lived at times as a squatter in the East Village, spoke from atop a plastic milk crate, saying the neighborhood was being occupied by a "consumerist army".
"Clearly the security people are trying to deal with the pressures that are exerted on President Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, and also the fact that Palestinians are being occupied by a foreign country," said Ziyad Abu Amr, a political scientist and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
An elegant Frenchman, his head and neck swathed in an expensive vicuña scarf, is furiously berating the young boat attendant who, it seems, didn't appreciate just how V.I.P. the man was; he wants the seats being occupied by a hip young British couple, who are not budging but yelling back at him.
"What better day to dedicate and break ground on a new building that is going to be a soaring icon right in the middle of this city and being occupied by a company that is a financial institution as well," Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference in Bryant Park.
X-ray crystallographic investigations showed that 2Tb has a typical monocapped square antiprism geometry, where the Tb III) ion is central, coordinating to the four amino moieties of the cyclen ring and four of the oxygens of amide carbonyl groups of the glycine residues of the four pendant arms, with the ninth coordinated site being occupied by a water molecule.
