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...year and were outraged when he went ahead with his plans in spite of the vote. If the "disengagement" is followed by an upsurge in terror attacks-and everyone from Israeli military intelligence to leading Hamas figures agrees that it will-they might use that as an opportunity to ditch the prime minister. When that happens, Netanyahu may be well situated to capitalize, as the man who finally stood on principle and quit, rather than vote for the withdrawal...
...with starlet Katie Holmes, it’s impossible to dislike Cruise, and his character’s shortcomings as a parent are quickly forgiven once people start dying. His children continue to oppose him in the movie, though, and you frequently wish that he’d just ditch them, or at least put a muzzle on Fanning to stop the shrieking...
...case. Johnson's six children by previous marriages were virtually all cut from the will. They tar their stepmother as a scheming shrew who came to be the housekeeper and stayed to clean house with a vengeance. She blasts them as decadent offspring making a last-ditch lunge at the old man's checkbook. Is this what is meant by an embarrassment of riches...
Four opponents of aid to the contras, three of them Viet Nam veterans, made a last-ditch effort to scuttle the legislation by holding a hunger strike on the steps of the Capitol. Two of the strikers at week's end were on their 41st day of a water-only diet. The protesters are backed by polls showing that the public opposes aid to the contras...
...that left policy unchanged, Trichet said the current rates were "appropriate" and "fully in line with what would be best to ... foster growth and job creation." The talk about Europe's dumping the euro, he added, was as ridiculous as contemplating the likelihood that Alaska, California or Florida might ditch the dollar...