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...Rice also warned Abbas that the Bush Administration took a dim view of the Palestinian leader's proposed trip to Damascus for a meeting with Hamas's exiled leader Khaled Mashaal in a bid to pacify the near-civil war that has erupted in recent months between militants of Fatah and Hamas. Rice made it clear to Abbas, said one Palestinian source, that "she's worried Hamas will impose its conditions on Abbas...
...starting by trying to enjoy watching other people be awkward, then working your way toward enjoying your own awkwardness. Try hanging out in an elevator in William James. Awkwardness, guaranteed.Good luck,SaraDear Sara,How do you know if you have a terribly life-threatening food allergy? I went to dim sum with my friends this one time and after I ate one of the two dozen assorted items that was on the table, my throat closed up and my ears started itching. The thing is, I’m not sure whether the food was too hot or whether...
...proposal that is most dim-witted is the attempt to remedy the lack of representation of women and minorities by encouraging more freshmen to run. Freshman elections in the UC are by far the most competitive and it is always too early to remedy representative imbalances at this stage of the process—often just a month or two into freshman year.Furthermore, freshmen are the most likely to drop out the next year because they are vulnerable to alienation from the UC culture. To propose this as a solution for increasing the number of women is to have...
...dim past--that place where the mindlessly cruel and the idealistically aspiring meet in vicious conflict--has been good to Mel Gibson. It brought him Oscars for Braveheart and hundreds of millions of dollars for The Passion of the Christ. It satisfies his directorial bloodlust and permits him to traffic in easily read moral metaphors about the issues...
...also an editor. Once, I was shooting at a high-school graduation, and I realized halfway through that a setting was making my pictures too dim. When I got home, I had to adjust them in Photoshop Elements. If I make the same blunder on the D40, I could lighten up the shots right on the camera, which saves the edited image as a separate file, in case you don't like the fix. This is helpful not just when you're clumsy, as I was, but when you say, shoot in low light and want to edit...