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...prisoners who aren't Hamas. (Hamas asked for freedom for members of other Palestinian factions, as well as foreign terror suspects in Israeli hands.) Apparently, Olmert wants to avoid Hamas being seen to gain legitimacy among the Palestinian public by securing prisoner releases, according to this source. To boost Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbbas in his struggle with Hamas, Olmert has vowed to release 250 of Fatah loyalists, a deal criticized by Palestinians as selfish on Abbas' part...
...announced his phone wouldn't stop ringing from eager agents. Despite having the league's best player in Landon Donovan, the Galaxy is 3-5-4 and in second to last place in its division, so the Galaxy hopes Beckham's arrival will give the team a much-needed boost on the field. The level of play will probably be better with the addition of Beckham, which is important for the league. Although there is a notion that American soccer fans are unsophisticated, MLS Commissioner Garber believes that the level of interest and soccer smarts is very high, and they...
...find more families willing to take in these kids, "child-welfare organizations banded together to get legislatures to allow any qualified parent to adopt, irrespective of sexual orientation," says Rob Woronoff, gay and lesbian program director at the Child Welfare League of America in Washington. The movement got a boost in 2002 when the American Academy of Pediatrics said the "health, adjustment and development" of kids adopted by gay parents were no worse than those of kids placed with heterosexuals. By 2006, a Pew Center poll found, support of gay adoption had risen from...
...blockbuster consumer group whose tastes will matter most to retailers and dictate our trends. The report found that nearly 60% of single women own their own home, buying them faster than single men; that single women fuel the home-renovation market; and that unmarried women are giving a big boost to the travel industry, making up half the adventure travelers and 2 out of 5 business travelers...
...events. Domestically, where political uncertainty looms as Putin approaches the end of his term in 2008 and society struggles with increasing wealth disparities, threats to civil liberties and other social problems, hosting the games is seen almost universally as a good idea, and the win has provided a quick boost to national morale. In public opinion polls, some 80% of Russians supported Sochi's candidacy...