Word: armfuls
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...Threat SRI LANKA Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran warned the country's divided leadership he would revive his demands for an independent state if the peace process remained stalled. He denied accusations by President Chandrika Kumaratunga that the rebels are using the current truce as a cover to re-arm. Peace talks broke down last month when Kumaratunga said the government was making too many concessions to the Tigers. Hostage Handover COLOMBIA Leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN) released two of the seven foreign tourists it had been holding hostage since Sept. 12, following church-mediated talks...
...podium, telling the crowd he had a Thanksgiving letter from Bush to read to the troops. Turning to General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of the 131,000 US ground forces in Iraq, Bremer asked: "General, is there anyone more senior than us here to read the letter?" and waved his arm towards the netting backdrop. It was Bush...
Karzai, who in June 2002 was confirmed in his job by a tribal assembly called a loya jirga, was a royal chieftain from the majority Pashtun tribe who, with some U.S. arm twisting, was found acceptable by the minority Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras. Having no army of his own, he was unthreatening to the country's warlords. With his fluent English, stoic bearing and good fashion sense, he seemed a comforting figure to the U.S. and the U.N. But as he nears the two-year mark on the job, the Karzai model is barely working for Karzai himself...
...final Harvard tally of the game came in the middle of the third period, when Ruggiero flicked the puck at the goal off Niagara co-captain Lindsay Vine’s arm, deflecting it into the net for the score and pushing Ruggiero past Charlotte Joslin ’90 for most goals by a Harvard defenseman...
...really rubs off on everybody else,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy says. “What you don’t understand or don’t know is that there’s an intangible there that along with his speed, his versatility, his strong arm, makes him a tremendous catalyst for our offensive success...