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...there any real belt tightening to speak of? Yes, the deficit-reduction bill the House approved last week reduces spending by $50 billion over the next five years, in part by cutting nearly $13 billion from Medicaid and food stamps. But the legislation passed only after House Republicans suffered a rare defeat--when 22 of them sided with Democrats and voted down a spending bill to cut $8 billion in funding to fight bird...
...after a 2-2 tie against No. 1 St. Lawrence last weekend. It also made a strong comeback attempt before falling to No. 9 Clarkson—who is currently undefeated in conference play. This weekend might give Harvard a chance to get some more ECAC victories under its belt if it does not overlook the always dangerous Yale squad. Brown (2-4-0, 1-1-0) might also offer a challenge as the Bears have dropped a disappointing loss to Colgate, but did manage to pull out a win against New Hampshire and dropped a pair of games...
...chilling performance aired on Jordan's Channel 1 only hours later, Rishawi twirled her body around as she modeled the hand-made explosives belt that she tried but failed to detonate in the hotel's ballroom on November 9. As if in a trance, she then coldly recounted the plan. "There was a wedding at the hotel, with children, women and men inside," she said, explaining the choice of target. Her husband then took one corner of the ballroom, she took another. "I tried to explode [my belt] but it wouldn't," she said. But Rishawi's husband managed...
...something really special you can do, but you have to do it right now and I can't tell you what it is." Gaghan walked out of the airport and got into a car with a stranger. As they drove, he was stripped of his backpack, pens and belt, and was blindfolded, hooded and thrown into the back of another car. "There was a bad 10 minutes in there where I'm thinking, 'You are really an idiot,'" he says. "'You're like Mr. Magoo. You just wander over to the Middle East and, literally, within the first 20 minutes...
...center of Amman, the capital of Jordan. Ashraf and Nadia were about to enter the ballroom, where 250 people waited to greet them. Mingling among the guests was a man who witnesses later said was in his 20s. A few minutes before 9 p.m., he detonated a suicide belt hidden under a jacket, turning the celebration into a scene of carnage. In the chaos, Daas's father lay motionless, bleeding from his mouth. His son tried to resuscitate him to no avail. The next day many of the wedding guests attended the funeral for Daas's father, held...