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...another. His eyes twitch with tension and concentration. "You see them?" he barks to the men at their guns. Another grenade explodes, louder and nearer, and this time a machine gun fires too--at the post. "That's very close!" Owdeh shouts. The Israeli machine guns open up a brief, deafening volley. But their target has retreated. In the nervous silence, a soldier speaks up. "It's quiet, too quiet." The Israelis know this won't last. "There's no quiet here," Owdeh mutters. "In this place, there's no such thing...
...woman had ever finished first that often (only Jean Claude Killy in 1968 and Tony Sailer in 1956 had been triple-gold among men). Kostelic alone made Croatia look like a pretty formidable team. U.S. alpine women, by contrast, didn't reach the podium. That provides a brief glimpse of how formidable the courageous and charming Kostelic...
...Texas state law requires that all requests for state records be answered within 10 days, the federally-funded presidential library does not have the manpower to even catalog the 1,800 boxes of gubernatorial records—let alone to respond to file requests—in such a brief period of time. Much to the dismay of Texas’ state archivist, who has the resources to handle the thousands of pages and has been one of the most vocal opponents of Bush’s scheme, the shortest notice the library can give petitioners is 90 days...
...protests remained peaceful, aside from a brief disruption caused by a passerby who mistook the dramatization for an actual hold-up. The man ran into the intersection and punched one of the protestors who was dressed as an Israeli soldier...
...brief review of weaver Edwin Sulca’s biography goes a long way in explaining why his tapestries are infused with such hope and pain. Sulca is a native of Ayacucho, the Peruvian city which bore the brunt of the violent conflict between the government and the guerrilla movement Shining Path during the 1970s and ’80s. After surviving more than twenty years of civil war, Sulca has created a series of weavings that contribute to the resurgence of color and song...