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...bank guard fired at Dawyyat, inside the glass cabin of the bulldozer, possibly wounding him. Then, an off-duty soldier, fresh from basic training, jumped on the vehicle and fired three shots at the driver. "He yelled 'Allahu Akbar' and hit the gas," recounted Pvt. Moshe Plesser. Soon after, two SWAT officers rammed their motorcycles into the bulldozer, slowing it so that they were able to clamber aboard and pump three more bullets into the driver...
...driver and I heaved the stretcher on which my mother-in-law lay moaning into the ambulance, and off they went, down the same road on which Gogol might well have conceived his line about fools and roads. Our dacha is just a walking distance from the estate of Abramtsevo, owned in Gogol's time by the Aksakov family - literati who turned their home into an informal salon for the Russian intellectual gentry. As a dear friend of the Aksakovs, Gogol was a frequent and honored guest in Abramtsevo, now a museum and a major Russian landmark of Russian cultural...
...defeat of Germany to claim the title of Euro 2008 champions - that is, if you are on a 44-year plan. Europe's oldest bridesmaids finally found true football love in Euro2008. "This is going to be good," said Fernando Torres, whose 33rd minute strike put Spain in the driver's seat and left Germany grasping for the rest of the match. "I hope not just for Spain, but for football, because the team that played the best won. Not always is that...
...selling online expect their total sales to jump 111% within five years, by which point they will account for 22% of total sales. And selling on the web can help boost a company's brick-and-mortar sales, too. "It's our most powerful marketing tool and a significant driver of store traffic," says David Duplantis, the senior vice president who oversees web sales for Coach, the American leather goods manufacturer. Coach.com receives 60 million visits a year, and 40% of Coach customers say they view products online before making in-store purchases...
...other side of the boundary, one Palestinian driver was relieved by the truce. "Before today, I'd be worried that an Israeli missile would hit the car in front of me, or that my son would be in danger because he happened to walk by a place where a militant was launching a rocket. So today I'm breathing a little easier." For Gazans and their neighbors in southern Israel, the truce has brought at least temporary relief from the specter of death striking randomly from the sky in the form of a fiery missile. And both sides hope...