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...Porter, the oldest of the four owners at 38. The four, who worked for different companies in the Dallas area and decided just 1 1/2 years ago to do their own thing, attracted an initial investment of $13 million and now have $25 million behind them, by Porter's count...
...vote (with 10 abstentions) accords the Palestinians the unique status of nonvoting member of the General Assembly, giving them the right to speak and cosponsor resolutions. More importantly for Yasser Arafat, it signals overwhelming international support for his planned declaration of independence next year. But if international consensus counted for anything in the Middle East, the state of Palestine would be two decades old. The decisions that count are made in Washington, where Palestinian statehood still remains a taboo topic...
...believes that media violence undermines kids' resilience and self-control, psychological mechanisms that allow people to bounce back and to count to 10 before they lash out. Some biologists--Harvard's E.O. Wilson has pioneered this thinking--believe there is a genetic component to these traits, that kids like Luke and Kip simply lack the DNA that keeps their fingers off the trigger. In the end, Satan is certainly the easier explanation, if less intellectually satisfying. As Kurt Cobain once sang, "Now the people cry and the people moan/ ... And try to find some place to rest their bones/ While...
...pastures, still waters, souls restored. Both occupied the screen simultaneously, and sometimes it was only with the greatest of efforts that he could relegate the extreme visions to a corner, reduced, as it were, to a picture-in-picture presence, with reality flickering in the middle. Once Laudor could count on his father Charles to get him through his troubles. When Laudor saw flames around him, Charles got his son to press his hand to the fire, dispelling the illusion. But Charles was gone; he died of prostate cancer...
...seeds of a conservative movement that would eventually produce the Reagan Revolution and the Republican take-over of Congress. Conservative columnist George Will was quoted as saying that "we--27,178,188 of us--who voted for him in 1964 believe he won, it just took 16 years to count the votes...