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...glaziers of Jerusalem will be rich if the intifadeh goes on like this. They charge $1,500 to install car windows that are shatter-resistant. People are paying. The Palestinian uprising is 2 1/2 years old. It has hardened into a dreary, bitter ritual. The reciprocal stoning and beating obey Newton's Third Law of Motion--for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Each side has found its threshold of acceptable suffering and cruelty...
...credit to the triumph of women's athletics, I guess, that the female bout was the main event. Harding tromped into the ring like the bitter little ball of anger we remember so fondly from 1994. (She was introduced as "the only world-class athlete" of all six competitors, omitting the whole unpleasant knee-bashing business, but I'm sure Jones had her gloves inspected for horseshoes anyway.) The giggly Jones seemed to think the whole match was a big joke. Neither woman would disclose her weight because, you know, women who volunteer for Fox Celebrity Boxing...
What this ‘tough luck’ assessment means for the anxious dreamers is that sweet dreams turn bitter too often and guilt interrupts the pursuit of shut-eye. Intentional insomnia may be the only solution. “I don’t need that much sleep,” says Emilia N. Asare ’04. “I sometimes feel sleep is a waste of time. I wish I didn’t have to sleep...
Wang Manji was returning home with freshly dug sweet potatoes from her fields last October when she stepped into the most bitter event of her life. A deranged neighbor had abducted her 15-year-old son and was holding him ransom with a meat cleaver. His demands: $100 and a car. Fifty policemen came to the rescue?and then, Wang says, the dithering began. The abductor claimed to be related to a top cop, and, Wang says, "the officers spent all their time trying to figure out what kind of a relative he was." After a fruitless, 8-hr. standoff...
...play is set in a handsomely furnished study, where the aging Johnny Silvester paces and faces his demons. He is plagued by the press, his bitter wife and his mentally disturbed son - even the imagined ghost of the friend he betrayed. Barry has denied that Silvester is specifically Haughey. However, there are some obvious parallels - both are ex-Irish Prime Ministers, both have had affairs with journalists, and both are accused of dubious financial dealings. At one point Silvester even growls, "I have done the state some service," the Shakespearean quote famously employed by Haughey...