Word: avis
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...Iran's role in this," says a French foreign-affairs official. "How much coincidence could there be in Hizballah kidnapping the Israeli soldiers on the same date that ministers met in Paris to decide what measures to take on the Iranian nuclear issue? None, in our opinion." Avi Dichter, Israel's Internal Security Minister, calls on other countries to help Israel show that "Iran's strategy has failed in Lebanon" and claims that if Iran is not faced down, it will try to destabilize oil states in the Gulf...
...prisoners, both Abbas and Hamas said last week that the militants would let Shalit go if Israel freed female prisoners, those under 18 and some who have served long sentences - a much smaller group. By the weekend, Israeli government ministers were sending mixed messages: Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said Israel might be willing to release some prisoners, while Interior Minister Ronnie Bar-On insisted it absolutely would not. Noam Shalit believes that releasing prisoners could be the best way to bring his son home. "Hopefully [Olmert] will release them for Gilad," he says. But with fighting continuing...
...outcome of the Shalit crisis may even further empower the radicals: Israel's Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter indicated Friday that Israel may be moving toward a prisoner swap - as demanded by Shalit's captors - in order to get its soldier home. That would be a massive victory for the hard-liners in Hamas - in the same way that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza without negotiating any agreements with the Palestinian leadership was taken on the street as vindication of the violent strategy of Hamas, which had not yet entered politics...
...lose control over their voluntary muscles. There are over 30,000 Americans living with ALS, and most individuals diagnosed with the illness have a lifespan of three to five years. Kremer chose not to leave Harvard and refused to accept his fate passively after his diagnosis.“Avi instead made the extremely difficult and courageous choice of fighting back.” said Nathan M. Boaz, a close friend and classmate of Kremer.Along with 90 of his classmates and Janice H. Hammond, the Philips professor and senior associate dean, Kremer led a candy fundraiser for Valentine?...
...talked to share a handful of my symptoms. Minor accomplishments, say, the completion of a particularly clause-rich sentence, seem to merit, according to the dominant irrational side of my mind, an entire hour’s worth of distractions. (Pick your poison: mp3 or avi.) Constant underestimation of how long a given paper will take has led to my foolhardy belief that any paper can be tackled in 24 hours. Mentally prepared to stay up all night, I only begin real work around a bleary-eyed three a.m. Perhaps some advice is in order. I will admit that...