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...homemaker in New Castle, said she worries about increased terrorism at home if the U.S. fails in Iraq. And Skip Haswell, 62, a retired cop in Ambridge, said he's concerned that the troops will suffer from a Vietnam-type stigma if they come home unsuccessful. "I try to explain it to them, that this is a strategy for success. This isn't just pulling out and saying, 'We're leaving the rest for you,'" Altmire said. "Redeveloping the troops to fight terror--that's what this is all about. Nobody is saying, 'Pull out precipitously...
...single woman seeking accommodation. In the main market of the middle class neighborhood of Dwarka, half a dozen property agents line a busy street, eager to cash in on the property boom that has gripped the capital. The first agent I tried seemed hesitant to speak to me, and explained that it would be "difficult" to rent a house to a single woman. He listed a series of apartment complexes that maintained unofficial policies allowing them to lease "only to families." Owners don't like the parties young men and women hold, he explained, nor "other mischief," which he wasn...
...struggled to explain it then, but I've been thinking about it ever since off and on, especially in the aftermath of a car bomb a few days ago that killed an estimated 10 people a few blocks from where I live...
...play begins with a geographer who wants to explain the story of a country that only existed for one day, told by narrating the life of a boy named Adam. Raised on an uncharted island, Adam is rescued by a group of sailors that tell him a children’s story about the kingdom of Gildoray and its lost prince. Soon, Adam believes that he is actually the lost prince of Gildoray. The rest of the play features short scenes of Adam’s quest for Gildoray, during which he battles pirates, warriors, and gryphons, falls in love...
...Mount Vernon estate, accompanied by a delegation of European security experts, in town for a conference. A motorboat draped in banners that read "Equal Voting Rights for D.C." drifted up alongside the boat. Voinovich, an Ohio Republican, found himself at a loss for words. "It was very difficult to explain to my European friends why the people who lived in the District of Columbia - the heart of our government - had no representation," Voinovich recalled at a Senate committee meeting last month. "The explanation I gave wasn't very well received...