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...There was an old drain where food has been collecting long enough to cause fruit flies to breed,” Alpert said...
...agreement and the peace process that followed that disillusioned the Palestinians and threw them into a new episode of confrontation. The reluctance of Israeli governments to implement promised withdrawals from Palestinian land, and then the catastrophic failure of the Camp David talks, prepared the fertile soil for a new breed of militants and suicide bombers...
...steam, and writer-director Charles Sturridge's script veers toward the overdramatic. But Branagh makes Shackleton a very human icon, hubristic but good-humored. The explorer later died trying another Antarctic mission, so one shouldn't oversell his lessons. Still, Shackleton is a well-executed reminder that failure can breed success...
...reason the Justice Department is talking deal could be that the pro-business, anti-regulation Bush Administration has an interest in seeing if a reborn, back-to-basics Andersen in the Volcker model could survive on integrity premiums. Certainly a new breed of cold-eyed auditor sought for its very scrutiny - and the investor confidence a passing grade would bring - would take some pressure off the SEC and other federal watchdogs whose responsibilities (and budgets) Bush would prefer not to increase...
...take the English, a special breed at once almost totally irrelevant and yet utterly convinced of their own superiority to the rest of the world. This allows them to treat the rest of the world's inhabitants shabbily without ever once acknowledging that we exist...