Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend of mine recently tried to commit suicide. He was not discouraged by an inordinate amount of trouble with organic chemistry. He was not despondent over a recent break-up with a long-time girl-friend. He was not having trouble making friends or getting along with his parents. Though these can all be powerful reasons to be upset, his reason was much more compelling...
Dershowitz, however, said Clinton did not commit a crime unless there was not commit a crime unless there was an "explicit quid pro quo"--an exchange of Clinton's power to delay the closing of the failing Madison Guaranty for funds for his 1984 campaign debt...
...assault rifles slung over their shoulders. As they saunter through the streets, Arab merchants grow anxious. The yeshiva boys frequently overturn their stalls or bash their cars. "It's a daily business the trouble they make," says shopkeeper Mohamad Sharif. The settlers admit to these actions, but say they commit them only when provoked...
...only to exist as plot fixtures. We get glimpses of the tragedies, which have happened but do not see any real connection between what has happened and what is occurring how. Raynathan, protected from many of these tragedies does not understand his brother's feelings. Yet he turns and commit the most horrible acts of revenge with seemingly no motive but to prevent his brother from leaving. All Raynathan can see are the new drug dealers who are impeding his turf. Enter trite love story for Roemello; a beautiful, melancholy aspiring actress Melissa (played by Theresa Randle) falls for Roemello...
...Bank division of Fatah, Arafat's own faction, visited the Dome of the Rock in East Jerusalem, Palestinian mobs stoned him until he was forced to leave. They chanted, "Arafat is a bastard!" or "Arafat is a Jew!" In Lebanon, Munir Magdah, a former Fatah leader, urged Arafat to commit suicide...