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...over two years that would take the average fireman's annual salary to €37,500. The FBU is asking for 40%, but hinted it would accept 16%. Determined to forestall a wider public services walkout, ministers warned that future FBU strikes might be outlawed. "We have bent over backward to be fair," Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott told the House of Commons. "We have been met with action that is wrong ... and puts lives at risk." But the very people whose lives were at risk seemed largely unperturbed. Although seven people were killed in fires - about average...
...fields. This is a line of reasoning that we often hear from those on the appeasement-oriented left. If one really believes that the administration is subservient to the whims of “Big Oil,” it may seem an enticing argument. Unfortunately, it is logically backward. Given that Hussein’s full compliance with U.N. weapons inspectors is implausible—making a confrontation exceedingly likely—it would be useful to debunk this “No Blood For Oil” myth once...
Sometimes my mother, who receives most of these queries, asks me what she should tell them, these parents kept awake nights by the fear that they’re spending thousands of dollars a year for their child to be backward. Should she tell them I learned to read before I came to Waldorf? That in the hours that my friends learned the alphabet through the shapes of animals, I had a book hidden under my desk? That I regularly complain about the grievous gaps in my high school education...
...Image begins with a snapshot in time, a single event that propels the narrative both forward and backward: the death of Naomi Landsmann, Leora’s best and only friend. This event causes Leora to meet Naomi’s grandfather, Bill, whose passion for Biblical photographs causes him to view life in discrete moments, snapshots that never form a cohesive whole. Though Bill’s goal is to create “the Bible on film, its greatest moments recorded in stop-action photography,” these tiny squares cannot create a world of meaning...
...Fitzpatrick misfired, and the ball ricocheted off Palazzo’s left shoulder and bounced toward the sideline. Officials ruled the pass a backward lateral—a live ball—and Lehigh’s Kerrie Ford scooped it up at the Harvard 24 and returned...