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...only senior in the regular rotation, Birtwell has become the de-facto leader of the staff, helping the younger pitchers develop...
...lost nearly 30% of its value and the stock market about a third of its worth before gaining back 10%. Within days, the central bank was forced to remove the lira's peg to the U.S. dollar. After trading at 687,550 to the dollar on Wednesday, the de facto devaluation took the figure to over 1 million on Friday...
...starting in '48 salvaging World War II rifles in the Egyptian desert. Yet the allure of a knockout punch has always proved his undoing. He envies the F.L.N. triumph over the French in Algeria, Khomeini's thundering revolution in Iran. His Palestine Liberation Organization gambits to become the de facto leader in Jordan and later in Lebanon dragged both countries into civil war. In the Gulf War, he bet on Saddam. This was all well before Arafat was ever on speaking terms with the Israelis, prior to winning the Nobel Peace Prize with Rabin and Shimon Peres for Oslo. That...
...Israel's new government looks set to take a de facto time-out from the peace process, at least as it has been defined over the past eight years, and work to restore stability in a country whose nerves are dangerously frayed. Indeed, forming a unity government is clearly an attempt by Israel's two major parties to calm the panic in domestic politics (once Sharon is sworn in next week, the country will have had four prime ministers in five years) and act in their mutual interest to restore the traditional Labor-Likud duopoly of power...
...With the old system, it was de facto segregation," said Daniel B. Kahn, a CRLS senior. "Choice is not something that needs to be in a restructured school...