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...minivan pulls away, the passenger is still wagging her finger out the window.“So easy,” I say with shock. “So easy!” Simon exclaims. “We’re hitchhiking to the beach next weekend.” “Definitely,” I say. Definitely? A wave of nervousness rises and then passes. Yes, definitely. We shouldn’t have too much trouble. I mean, it’s not like we’re the hitchhiking type. Francesca M. Mari...
...times they are a-changing, as Bob Dylan - who will perform at a free Concert for Peace on San Sebastian's beach next Tuesday -once sang. "I think this time it's for real," says Javier Elzo, a Sociology Professor at the University of Deusto, in Bilbao. Elzo, who has been under threat from ETA for more than 10 years and dropped his bodyguards the day after the group announced its current truce, believes ETA has finally recognized that it cannot achieve its objectives through violence. "The [harsh] reaction of Basque society after breaking [the 1998 cease-fire], the police...
DIED. Abbye Stockton, 88, trailblazer for women's weight-lifting known as the First Lady of Iron, who in 1947 organized the first official lifting meet for women; in Santa Monica, Calif. With husband Les, Stockton--nicknamed Pudgy for her childhood baby fat--helped popularize Muscle Beach in Santa Monica in the 1930s and '40s with demonstrations that included the human pyramid and the high press, in which she stood on Les' hands while balancing a 100-lb. barbell...
...stretch to call the atmosphere placid. For months Gaza militants have fired homemade rockets at Israeli towns, usually missing but causing some injuries and great misery, and drawing Israeli artillery barrages in response. Tensions escalated early last month after seven members of a Palestinian family died in a Gaza beach explosion, which Palestinians blamed on an errant Israeli artillery shell. (Israel denied responsibility.) That prompted Hamas leaders to renounce a 16-month-old cease-fire with Israel, giving an array of Palestinian guerrilla groups the green light to stage a high-profile attack...
...forgive every single marine who might be guilty of any wrongdoing in Haditha. How many of us could endure the genuine fear of being blown apart day after day without going berserk? The atrocity is not Haditha; it is the war. Edward Fry Laguna Beach, California...