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...metal detectors, learned that no one cares what book I'm reading, and formulated a special dance step that helps me sail through the endless security screenings: Step, unzip coat, open coat, twirl, take off ski hat, move through the metal detector, pause and smile. Works like a charm...
...kidnappers' initial deadlines passed late last week, Pearl's family and friends clung to the hope that his cool head, innate charm and intelligence would protect him from further harm. "Danny's incredibly resourceful," said Nick Noyes, a friend of Pearl's from his days at the Massachusetts paper North Adams Transcript. "If anyone can get himself out of a mess like this, he can." But Pearl had been caught up in a new wave of anti-American terror, one that doesn't seem to follow any script. His friends and colleagues could do little more than wait...
...walk back and forth, to and fro and from left to right as they savvily unearth the hidden secrets of Harvard Square’s historical history. Like every city, town and municipality we have ever covered, Harvard Square struggles to walk the tightrope between preserving its Old World charm and modernizing to modernization...
...despite Sharon's access to the White House - and Arafat's lackluster charm offensive in whatever column space and airtime he can commandeer in the U.S. media - the situation on ground continues to deteriorate. And there little reason to believe that the best efforts of Bush and Sharon to turn the screws on Arafat will change that reality...
...Yasser Arafat may have yet to impress anyone with his new "give-peace-a-chance" op-ed page charm offensive, but the pressure on him to rein in the gunmen isn't only foreign. A number of Palestinian political leaders and intellectuals have grown increasingly alarmed at what they characterize as the "militarization" of the intifada. They complain this not only reinforces antidemocratic tendencies in Palestinian political life, but is also a spectacularly bad strategy that has squandered international sympathy for Palestinian street protestors by shifting attention to Israelis suffering the horror of suicide bombings. Israeli reports suggest Arafat...