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...IRAN Khatami Will Run President Mohammed Khatami ended months of intense speculation that he would shun a second term by announcing three days into the five-day official registration period that he would run for re-election. In a dramatic address, Khatami repeatedly broke down in tears as he described why, despite his personal inclination to step down, he had decided to run again for the sake of the nation. More than 180 people, including three women, have registered as candidates for the June 8 presidential election...
...students then broke up into smaller groups to analyze the fingerprints, footprints, ransom note and other clues. ExperiMentors volunteers led chromotography demonstrations to pinpoint what type of ink was used to write the ransom note and looked at hair and cloth from the crime scene under microscopes...
...pound lobbyist gorilla that for years has been aggressive - and successful - in defending major airlines' interests. But not a happy one, and in 1997, after a few instances of getting what it thought was the brush-off from several members of Congress, the notoriously independent-minded Dallas-based airline broke down and opened its own lobbying office in the nation's capital...
...nearly broke himself in those first two years. He was never quite the same on the other side of his leave of absence. He decided he was going to have to ration his energies. I think he was often exhausted,” Gomes observes...
...Just before her 30th birthday, the war broke out. Eager for adventure, Travers signed up as a volunteer for Charles de Gaulle's Resistance army and shipped off to Africa and the Middle East where she joined up with the Legion and became the driver for Colonel Marie-Pierre Koenig. On a trip from Damascus to Beirut, Koenig and Travers became lovers then lived together in Beirut, where they were stationed for several months. "Slowly, in the idyllic setting I would remember fondly all of my life," she writes, "Pierre touched my soul in a way no other...