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...statement released yesterday, Sigma Chi said its first priority is to delay or cancel the sale. Otherwise, the organization said it will try to raise the funds to purchase the building, soliciting help from fraternity alumni...
...reconciliation with the North the centerpiece of his presidency, high and dry. President Kim had warned that the a tougher line from the U.S. would drive North Korea's leader back into his reclusive and unpredictable shell, and that point appeared to be underscored by Pyongyang's decision to cancel Tuesday's talks. And a fit of diplomatic pique may be the best-case scenario - the South Koreans are concerned that if North Korea perceives a more hostile shift in Washington, it may renew its unpredictable military brinkmanship in order to put pressure on the U.S. and South Korea. Pyongyang...
Oscar handicappers are already debating whether one Soderbergh film will cancel out the other?or reinforce it. The betting is that Traffic, as the more recent film, and far more ambitious, has a swell shot at the top spot. What's guaranteed is that Erin will get at least one award: a Best Actress statuette for Julia Roberts' showy, blowsy, smug, applause-truckling, wildly self-aggrandizing performance (which, by the way, we didn't much care for). Roberts will beat out the estimable Laura Linney, who won critics' prizes as the single mom in the indie drama You Can Count...
...your husband/boyfriend's condom breaks. Or your diaphragm gets dislodged. You spend the rest of the night in a state of panic; you know, somehow, that you're going to get pregnant, and you're not ready, financially or psychologically, to have a baby. So the next day you cancel your meetings and head to your doctor's office, where you wait hours for a cursory appointment - after which you're handed a prescription for the morning-after pill. At the local drugstore, the sole pharmacist on duty informs you that he is morally opposed to filling your prescription...
...Turkish government has responded to the National Assembly's decision by threatening to cancel lucrative defence and telecommunications contracts with French firms. In Britain, the Armenian diaspora has accused the British government of placing politics above principle when it failed to give a more central place to Armenian suffering in the newly-declared Holocaust commemoration, held last week...