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...favorite inanimate thing - and I have owned many things - was an old wooden boat. She was sixteen feet long and too heavy to lift, and I could just barely drag her over a sandbar to the water. She had been, long before, a lifeboat on a ship. They made her lapstraked and beautiful back then, and strong. But they did make her heavy; it took three strokes just to get her moving. Get her going, though, and boy she went - she rowed out straight as a city street, through waves and wind with a wonderful, easy motion. As a young...
Polls show that if Olmert, tarred by scandal, were to keep clinging to the leadership of Kadima, the party would collapse - and it would drag the coalition government along with it. Zevulon Orlev, chairman of the National Religious party, called for Olmert to quit after police interrogated him on Friday, saying: "In an enlightened country, he would have resigned a long time...
...Many floats embraced marriage as a theme, though each added its own bit of flair, like drag queens as bridesmaids and go-go dancers as groomsmen...
...optimism in the air was palpable as the festivities got underway. I joined the hundreds of thousands of onlookers who lined the streets to cheer as politicians, advocacy groups, celebrities and drag queens—a lot of drag queens—made their way down Market St. With more than 200 floats, the parade stretched over three hours...
...Hizballah, Olmert met personally with the Regev and Goldwasser families, who expressed their approval of the cabinet decision and said they expected a swift conclusion to the deal. Israeli leaders are hoping to oblige the families, but the timing is now up to Hizballah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who may drag the process out for weeks, or even months, say Israelis. Olmert and the cabinet, however, have achieved their primary goal: catering to the public opinion ahead of the election. -With reporting by Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem