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Peres resolved the impasse with Shamir by ordering a telephone canvass of the entire Cabinet, and won a vote of 13 to 12 in favor of the Weizman trip, with Religious Affairs Minister Yosef Burg of the National Religious Party and Minister Without Portfolio Yigal Hurvitz of the Ometz Party casting the deciding votes. The Prime Minister received the good news as he left a meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, who is laying the groundwork for a visit next month by Secretary of State George Shultz...
...theater--in Grand Rapids. What began as a two-week engagement has turned into the longest test-marketing of a film in U.S. history. Director Bob Shallcross, who wrote the screenplay for the peewee football epic Little Giants, picked this tryout location in part because he thought the conservative burg would appreciate Nino's homespun message about savoring life's simple pleasures, and in part because that's where he found a theater exec willing to give the $3 million film some screen time. No one expected that the crowds would keep coming...
Several cities boast of being the first wi-fi burg in the U.S. Grand Haven, Mich. (pop. 10,900), contends it locked up the title when it covered its 7 sq. mi. last March. But it's not the only player on the field. Cities such as Half Moon Bay, Calif.; Athens, Ga.; and Chaska, Minn., let folks roam the wireless Web from street corners all around town. Whereas those places might be ahead of the curve, analysts say that big profits have been elusive for companies backing wi-fi projects. Just because you're among the first doesn...
...Didn’t you notice that Sara Burg isn’t on the roster?” a sportswriter gently mocked...
...opening minutes of the series, about a true-life gold rush town, a prospector says he's "f___ed up [his] life flatter 'n hammered s___," while the legendary Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) calls her associates "ignorant f___in' c__ts." Land o' Goshen! Has nobody in this burg heard of "consarnit" or "tarnation...