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...concerned, Sharon and Bush can decide to cancel Ramadan. But that doesn't mean that Muslims will not fast." SAEB EREKAT, senior Palestinian negotiator, disparaging Bush's endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to vacate the West Bank while allowing some Jewish settlements to remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...CHARGES: "He's voted to cancel weapons programs like the Stealth bomber, the [M-1] tank, the Apache helicopter, the MX missile...He's voted to cut $1.5 billion from the intelligence community." --ED GILLESPIE, Republican National Committee chairman, accusing John Kerry of being soft on defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting It In Context | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

...punked” is to be “made fun so bad that you have nothing to say back.” According to Gossip Guy, being truly punked means having your blockmate/best friend steal your girlfriend of three years and then suddenly cancel a long planned ski vacation with you in order to spend more quality time with her, leaving you to venture off to Park City alone because the entire non-refundable trip was on your Mastercard and then forcing you to find an alternate way home from Logan because he “borrowed?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gossip Guy | 3/4/2004 | See Source »

...stable, low-gravity place where spacecraft could be assembled and missions could begin, they might do a lot better to fly out to Lagrange point L1--a spot about 200,000 miles from Earth where the gravity of Earth and moon are in relative equilibrium. Gravitational forces essentially cancel each other out at such cosmic odd spots, making them easier to leave than the low-gravity moon and entirely eliminating the need to ease hardware down to the surface and then wrestle it back off again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Mission to Mars | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...wanted to return their coursepacks for which the printing and publication-rights costs were already paid. But since the online pre-ordering system will alert HPPS if students still want a particular coursebook, a return-on-demand system would be feasible. Students could easily use the online system to cancel their coursepack orders and HPPS could save the time—and the cost—of reprinting the book. HPPS could ask the unhappy customers to return the book within the next few hours for a full refund...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: From On Line To Online | 1/21/2004 | See Source »

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