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...part, my face was in the dirt, and I was just praying they wouldn't see me or hear me," he recalled. At times, his Serb pursuers approached, beating the ground with their rifles in an effort to flush him out. On one occasion, he lay motionless as a cow browsed on blades of grass between his legs. Eventually he nicknamed two cows that were especially fond of his hiding spot "Leroy" and "Alfred"; the old man who herded them he called "Tinkerbell" because of the cowbell he carried. At another point, O'Grady was awakened by the roar...
...least, were buried in Tomb 5. Many of the engravings show Ramesses presenting one or another of the newly deceased young men to Re-Harakhty, the god of the sun; Horus, the falcon-headed god of the sky; or Hathor, goddess of motherhood, who is often depicted as a cow. These scenes reflect the belief that pharaohs were demigods while alive and that life was merely a short-term way station on the road to full deity...
Sens. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) and Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) today unveiled a blueprint forfixing the ultimate political sacred cow, Social Security, before the system becomes insolvent in 2030. On the list: raising the retirement age, curbing cost of living increases and allowing workers to invest some of their own payroll taxes inIndividual Retirement Accounts. Kerrey, who co-chairs a federal deficit-cutting commission, failed to get even a majority of that panel to endorse those ideas in December. Today, the senators took their warnings directly to the people: "As a nation, we are consciously damning our children...
Welcome to the second 100 Days. The confrontation was merely a taste of what Dole and Gingrich can expect as they begin the hardest part of their agenda: facing the enormous political risks involved in slashing Medicare and an array of other sacred-cow government programs to balance the budget and pay for the tax cuts Gingrich has termed the "crowning jewel" of the Contract with America. Indeed, there was cold sweat at a no-press-allowed retreat in suburban Virginia at week's end, where G.O.P. House members had to go to secure conference rooms to read numbered copies...
...flabbergasted: Why would anyone want to head east? She never explained why she chose to give up the relative security of that Bavarian hamlet, but I suspect she thought of herself as a city woman who could not cope with life in what she dismissed as a Kuhdorf, a cow town. We went back...