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...compound, a few hundred Palestinians newly released from Israel's jails gathered last Thursday lunchtime with their families. The Palestinian leader emerged smiling from a meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to greet the crowds. Arafat puckered his lips and blew kisses, no doubt expecting the kind of drawn-out session of mass adulation he relishes. But the prisoners knew whom to thank for their freedom. "Long live Hizballah!" they chanted. "Long live Hassan Nasrallah!" The name of the Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist militia leader wiped the smile off Arafat's lips: he immediately turned around and rushed into...
Even though Nextel developed push to talk for business use, it's the off-peak appeal that makes it hot. People are using it at supermarkets and ski lodges, anywhere that a short burst of chatter from a speaker works better than a drawn-out conversation, phone to ear. You can even talk in a group, like a voice chat room...
When he was appointed to take the helm of the district last spring, Fowler-Finn was seen by parents and city officials as a savior for a city school system plagued by gaps in minority and underprivileged student performance, declining enrollments and a drawn-out battle over school mergers...
Trombly told The Crimson Thursday that he felt a sense of relief at the apparent end of the drawn-out legal process...
Trombly told The Crimson yesterday that he felt a sense of relief at the apparent end of the drawn-out legal process...