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...leverage, they exacted a commitment from Israeli officials to a U.S. proposal, which had been the table for some weeks, to suspend aerial bombing sorties over south Lebanon for 48 hours, give residents 24 hours safe passage to get out of the areas of intensive bombardment and allow humanitarian aid convoys to enter and distribute food, water and medical supplies. Israeli agreement to the limited suspension came late in the evening. Rice spokesman Adam Ereli, not the Israelis, made the announcement. Hours later, the Israeli military attacked targets in southern Lebanon. Rice said those sorties did not violate the promise...
...irony that they were totally useless in the attempt to aid victims of the attack is not lost on them; they were just preparing to ascend into one of the towers when it collapsed. All they know now is that they must stay awake; to slip into unconsciousness is to slip into death. So they croak and whisper in broken sentences mainly about the families they do not expect to see again. In what may be the film's most striking image, a vision of Christ appears to Jimeno; he is offering him the thing Jimeno most wants--water...
...been the driving force behind Farm Aid for almost two decades. This year's concert [Sept. 30] is in Camden, N.J. Seems like an odd place for a Farm Aid show...
...never had a Farm Aid that far east, so we're going to try one. There's a lot of farmers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York. We've had 20 years of Farm Aids hoping that Washington would pass a good deal so that farmers can make a living. There's a lot of people out there getting government subsidies, but it ain't going to the small farmers. It's going to the big guy who doesn't really need it, and it's putting farmers out of business all over the world...
...Even Pyongyang's friends have proved fickle. Last week, South Korean newspapers reported that China, the North's closest ally, largest trading partner and aid donor, had frozen North Korean assets held in the Macau branch of the Bank of China. Beijing's clampdown, which took place last year, followed a similar freeze on about $24 million of Pyongyang's cash in another Macau bank-Banco Delta Asia-which the U.S. claimed was funneling money the North earns from drug smuggling and counterfeiting...