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Fires that occur in the zone where suburban sprawl abuts rugged wild lands are known as intermix fires, and they are a fire fighter's nightmare. Vastly complicating the ability to protect property and lives are nonnatural hazards like narrow, twisting roads that dead-end in blind canyons or houses with cedar-shake roofs and logs stacked beside the kitchen door...
...Israelis and Palestinians haven't been entirely enthusiastic. Even the moderates around Abbas have few illusions about the kind of peace deal they'll get from Sharon, but they believe the armed intifada is a dead-end that ruins Palestinian chances of achieving statehood, and that their only hope is to restore their standing in Washington and among the Israeli public. They know Sharon will offer something way short of the draft agreement that had been on the table at Taba, but they also believe that Palestinian suicide bombers have terrorized the Israeli electorate into electing and reelecting the aging...
...alum, John H. Updike ’54, who helped popularize Borges in the United States. In an admiring 1965 New Yorker article, a draft of which is on display at Houghton, Updike argued that Borges could furnish “a clue to the way out of the dead-end narcissism and downright trashiness of present American fiction...
...deadline because he doesn't believe there is enough trust between the two communities. Papadopoulos' victory may have strengthened the Turkish Cypriot leader's resolve. "As long as Papadopoulos does not draw himself a realistic plan and abandon his imaginary solutions, there is no reason to continue with this dead-end process," Denktash said after the election results. Papadopoulos is not an obvious peacemaker. He studied law in Britain and became a successful lawyer and politician, after having fought with EOKA, Cyprus' nationalist guerrilla movement, against British troops who occupied the island in the 1950s. In the 1990s, Papadopoulos...
...that changed last week with the release of The Good Girl. Now Aniston is getting the best reviews of her career--the kind of reviews that can lead to Oscar nominations. In the film, she stars as Justine, a small-town Texas woman with a dead-end job behind the makeup counter of a discount store called the Retail Rodeo. Married to a lug (John C. Reilly) who is lacking in both smarts and sperm count, Justine embarks on a disastrous affair with a troubled young co-worker (Jake Gyllenhaal...