Word: cheer
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...intifadeh has had far less impact in Jericho, where the residents, by comparison with the utter poverty in Gaza, are almost prosperous. Townspeople have heard that Arafat will visit soon, and like most of them, 73-year-old Ahmed Ali Missad says he will be in the street to cheer him. If he comes, says Missad, "it will mean peace. We all want peace." But even here, Palestinians can't suppress the fear that self-rule is an Israeli trick that will turn their town into the symbol of a P.L.O. sellout...
Liberals did find some things to cheer, however, such as the more holistic approach to drug offenders. "If you have mandatory drug treatment in the prisons, you can get a lot done," says New York Congressman Charles Schumer. "You say to criminals, 'You're not getting out of jail till you're drug- free.' " Others applauded the $100 million in grants to schools to develop anticrime programs, and the idea of sending young, first-time offenders to boot camps, where they get heavy discipline and a second chance, rather than sending them to jail for their graduate training in criminal...
...soon as the two sudden titans finished with broad flourishes of their bows, a tremendous cheer accompanied by even more thunderous applause rose from the enraptured crowd. Perlman and Zukerman then left the stage in unquestionable triumph...
...networks have said they will back off from their overzealous pursuit of true-crime movies of the week. ABC, which drew fire for its two-parter in May about 1950s mass murderer Charles Starkweather, has turned down a proposed TV movie about 1960s mass murderer Richard Speck. Critics may cheer at the demise of this tawdry TV-movie crime wave, but good films may get hurt in the process. ABC had planned to air the explosively violent (and Oscar-winning) film Goodfellas this season, complete with an introduction by director Martin Scorsese in which he asserts the film...
There will be more tears later, and not of joy or friendliness, as the damages mount. Already, amid the determined good cheer, there are those like Mike Johnson who curse the river, the skies, the dams and levees upstream (for holding altogether too well and increasing pressure downriver), and the government. Mike, an out-of-work machine operator, and his wife Roberta and three children were ordered out of their two-story brick house in the St. Louis suburb of Lemay on July 9 at 3:30 a.m. Every day since, Mike has returned to the house in a neighbor...