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CLINTON He drove like a bat out of hell...
Ihsanullah Khan is long-shot rescuer. A Pakistani immigrant, Khan drove a cab in Washington and pinned his dreams on winning the lottery. Khan always played the same numbers--2, 4, 6, 17, 25 and 31--because they had once appeared in a dream. Every week for 15 years, he bet religiously on the numbers and lost. Then in November 2001, when the jackpot rose to $55.2 million, Khan's lucky numbers finally came through. He pulled his taxi over to the curb, took a deep breath and thought of his mother, whose dying words to him were...
...Perhaps still retaining the anti-elitist sentiment that drove him to write about Heimert and that embittered him against commission-based stock advisors, Cramer puts a premium on getting to “the people’s” level...
When local riot police backed by armed security forces drove tanks into the southern China village of Dongzhou on Dec. 6 and began shooting at demonstrators, there were no journalists present. Still, in this age of the Internet and cell phones, news soon began to filter out that at least six villagers had been killed. And by the end of the week the authorities admitted something had gone terribly wrong, announcing that a top police commander had been detained...
...Demonstrators with signs like "Impeach" and "Fascist" were penned across Broad Street from Bush's hotel. They booed and shouted "Shame!" as he drove past. Williams asked Bush about the protesters. "They're frankly smaller than they used to be," he replied nonchalantly, after saying that he kind of gets used to them and that they're "part of living in a democracy." Another administration critic, Democratic Rep. Jack Murtha of Johnstown, Pa., was in town and shared Bush's time on the local news. Murtha staffers said it was a coincidence that the Democratic congressman, the most pro-military...